Building a 1500 Gallon plywood & glass tank

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
MyFishEatYourFish;2974766; said:
mangroves don't do so well in freshwater. or did you mean just roots like a mangrove? surface plants would look sooo good but i think they may have a tendency to overgrow their bounds and they would be difficult to keep cut back. i think alot of the fish in there would chew on them as well.
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Yea, just the roots. Anything viney in the water with little volume taken up would be cool. And as for the surface plants, some duckweed or hyacinth would look good if you dont have overactive grazers. my cichlids usually leave my water sprite alone, but as for the gouramis (that actually chew the crap out of them) it grows quickly enough to replace itself. Then you can plant it when it gets some roots and they grow vertically really well. But yea, I didn't think about having to cut it back (which you would definitely have to do with a sprite). Anyway, good luck with whatever you choose.

I'm getting new baby convicts tonight!! I'll be posting photos of them in my new 55 setup soon.
 
nolapete;2978583; said:
Kcameron, look up mangroves. They REQUIRE bare minimum brackish water. You keep saying to use them, but they won't live in freshwater.
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Actually hate to burst your bubble but :grinno: no they don't Require Brackish... but there is a special process to go through to get them to grow in fresh... I think it was Midnight that was talking about this some time ago... Dr. Joe can also get into the specifics I beleive
 
hat looks great
 
basslover34;2978594; said:
Actually hate to burst your bubble but :grinno: no they don't Require Brackish... but there is a special process to go through to get them to grow in fresh... I think it was Midnight that was talking about this some time ago... Dr. Joe can also get into the specifics I beleive
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They won't survive for very long though. They start deteriorating. I wanted to use them on a freshwater refugium. While you can adapt them to freshwater, there are problems associated. It's kind of like brackish fish that CAN live in freshwater. Just because they can doesn't mean they should.
 
nolapete;2978614; said:
They won't survive for very long though. They start deteriorating. I wanted to use them on a freshwater refugium. While you can adapt them to freshwater, there are problems associated. It's kind of like brackish fish that CAN live in freshwater. Just because they can doesn't mean they should.
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That was not my understanding at all... Perhaps your right, I'll see if I can find the old threads tonight regarding this... as I recall there were a few people whom had done this with no problems
 
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