Mangroves Group Buy

[09bumblebee]

I'm going to order some off fleebay. Seems like the red and black are the most popular. Any reason to get either type in the aquarium? Also do the roots need to be in sand or water only?

Group buy

Bumblebee 5
Watercolorsguy 10
CindyL 10
Blazinjack 15
JNG 15
FishTV 10
Aztecdreams 15
Highway66 15
PlumCrazy 5

 

[FinsUp]

water only is fine. no idea about the differences between red & black.

 

[jahmic]

Re: Mangroves

Pretty sure you want red mangroves.

Black mangroves typically grow further inland where fresh and saltwater mix...they do well in brackish water and can adapt to a wide salinity range. I actually used to grow black mangroves in my freshwater system...I introduced plants as large as 6" tall and also grew them from seeds in FW.

 

[09bumblebee]

Thanks, building a little box for them to sit in so to say, going to put them in my frag tank and want to hide the roots.

 

[Haddonisreef]

I mad a box out of egg crate for mine!! Just be sure to keep a spray bottle under stand to spray them, they can tend to get a lot of slat creep on the leaves!

 

[FinsUp]

I had a batch die on me, and I think it was from lack of flow around the roots. Not certain, but I'd make sure they have flow around the roots just in case.

 

[sethsolomon]

you need to clean off the mangrove leaves daily of salt otherwise they will suffocate and die

 

[Haulin Oates]

Mangroves

I'm going to order some off fleebay. Seems like the red and black are the most popular. Any reason to get either type in the aquarium? Also do the roots need to be in sand or water only?

Are you ordering seeds or plants? Would you be interested in letting some other people in on the buy, save on shipping?

 

[Haddonisreef]

you need to clean off the mangrove leaves daily of salt otherwise they will suffocate and die

The reason I said to use a spry bottle!

 

[FinsUp]

Are you ordering seeds or plants? Would you be interested in letting some other people in on the buy, save on shipping?

I smell a group buy fermenting...

And I didn't have to spray mine daily. Once a week was fine.

 

[asn-naso]

What sort of light is needed for their growth? Your standard fuge light, or LED's, or ???

 

[FinsUp]

What sort of light is needed for their growth? Your standard fuge light, or LED's, or ???

they're plants. standard fuge light is fine.

 

[asn-naso]

But the lights are at the tree part, not the root part, correct?

 

[09bumblebee]

Are you ordering seeds or plants? Would you be interested in letting some other people in on the buy, save on shipping?

Ordering plants off eBay. Found a company that does aqua culturing and doesn't remove them from the wild which is awesome. Group buy would be awesome. Most shipping is free. Looks like we can get anywhere from 5-50 I wanted atleast 5 incase a few died.

 

[static reef]

Re: Mangroves

Shoot us a link so we can see the prices bumble. I did tins of research on these little bugers. The crappy thing is that every site I got on has a different # of plants per gallon to reduce nitrates. I love biological filtration and my tank tends to run 05 nitrates if I do not do any water changes for 1 month (I over feed the crap out of my fish). My goal was to use mangroves as a fix for this instead of water changes (100 gallon water changes gets pricey every 2 weeks) anyways some say that it is 1 plant per gallon. Others say 1 per 10 etc. Anyone have any proof.

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[09bumblebee]

http://bit.ly/XnOyjy

This is only for 15 but I can contact with a number of how many we need to work out a deal. I haven't looked into how many per gallon etc etc.

 

[09bumblebee]

http://moon.ouhsc.edu/pwhitby/mangrove.htm

Here's a good read to mangroves I found on rc

 

[WatercolorsGuy]

Re: Mangroves

http://bit.ly/XnOyjy

This is only for 15 but I can contact with a number of how many we need to work out a deal. I haven't looked into how many per gallon etc etc.

Those are some nice plants, nice to find them already leafed out instead of just getting pods. I might go in on some with you.

 

[FinsUp]

I think this is who I ordered from. He sent good plants. I'd like 10, if we're doing a group buy.

 

[09bumblebee]

Got a list going on the first post. Should we set a date?