Red Mangroves for the Win!

So after a week of back and forth emails and a week of losing contact with the vendor, I finally got my mangroves today! So happy!!

Prepping for the new plants:

Step 1: Make sure the cats won't knock over the acclimation zone. Check.





Alternate Acclimation Zone:



Step 2: Stupid proof the supplies. Check.





Step 3: Drive up and down the driveway half a dozen times and stake out the mailbox until the mailman arrives. Check.



Step 4: Extricate the goods. Check.





Step 5: Wait.



The planters are to follow. The vendor was missing some parts so he sent me the mangroves so I could get them acclimating. They were growing in water that is very slightly brackish (SG 1.010 or so) and it will take 6 weeks or more to get them fully acclimated to the desired SG of 1.025 before they can go in the tank that will be their future home. My plan is to add one Tablespoon of Marine Salt every week until they are fully acclimated. I don't know how long it will take but here's hoping that it will be painfully slow enough.

Thanks. (Now that I figured out my photo problem, lol)

Lol. They're just HUGE!! I never expected them to be so big!

Disaster strikes already! In the form of Baby Girl! I should have known better.......

My babies!!





They now sit in alternate acclimation zone A (hope there's enough light):

sbuse said:

can you say "thats what she said?" i just dont have a sig big enough....i may just have to link a thread to kellyisums....

so your even telling me about chances to laugh at you now. i'd have found this gem without your advertizement. (that is a spell check approved inventated word there)

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..................You're officially dead to me........................

That is NOT why I told you to come over here and you know it!



On a more serious note...What do you think? The question now is do the openings the mangroves require in the tank constitute a dead eel?