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10/10/2008 tank is going strong. Sump is filled with sand/rock and cheato. planning to order some mangroves soon, and still deciding on a light. im ordering some fish and corals on live aquaria, ill post pics when i receive whatever i decide to get lol. pics to follow tonight
 
I love the open spaces in that bad boy!!!!
Lots of room to swim around!!

So where do you get the MANGROVE plants?
I started makeing a LITTLE fuge/sump today and was pondering what plants to instal in it!
I know I'm gonna put some macro algea but the mangrove plants sound very benificial!!!
I'm working with only about 7 gallons for my 29 gallon tank!!!!!!!
 
i order mangrove through www.liveaquaria.com around here theres no stores that carry them, ever lol. There very beneficial by removing all unwanted nitrates in the water, which help keep your phosphates low naturally. This will reduce the amount of algae in all forms in your display tank. I have about 100lbs of rock total and I'm running a DSB which equals about 220lbs of live sand. That was a bit pricey lol but works great. Ill post some pictures of the sump and tank now, the diatom stage came back a little bit when i started adding all the live stuff to the sump, sort of a mini cycle if you will. Currently in a box I received the rest of my lighting and I'm unsure when ill get to installing that.

Yeah that tank front to back is 2 feet, which give me a lot of very nice room to scape some rock work and place coral in front on the sand. Most of my corals are staying low in the tank and ill be adding some SPS in a few months after the tank runs for a while, and i get the rest of my VHO lighting done. This should give me plenty of growth power for SPS mid tank, if my calculations are correct, and the advice from a fellow local reefer.

7 gallons is not much to work with, mangroves are semi aquatic, meaning the leaves will grow out of the water. So a light thats mounted about the sump by about 12 inches will allow for the best growth of these plants. The sand in my sump is about 4 inches deep for good rooting to take place and after there planted rock will be placed behind them and then cheato will be placed after the rock. in the refugium i plan to keep hermit crabs and some turbo snails just to help keep things somewhat clean.

Something I heard that helps refugiums is the growth of muscles. The biggest pest for all fishermen lol. I would imagine however that this growth would eventually take of the tank, what are your thoughts on this practice??
 
invisyblegypsey;2300476; said:
beautiful job !!!!!!
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thanks very much. Its a work of art in the process so to speak lol. im far from done and when i am i hope it looks as good as some reefers out there.
 
I like it alot, thanks for sharing.
 
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