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02-02-2002, 07:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
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Scuba,
Those seeds you got are about the size mine were when I got them. Again, like I said in the previous post they have been trimmed once and have now doubled their top branches. Here is a shot of the roots. The sand bed is just good old South Florida beach sand . |
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02-02-2002, 07:44 PM
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Citizen
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: ssauga ontario canada
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cool cool
but did the mangroves have anything to do with the hair algae? i dont get it? y did u pull them out when u were gettin hair algae? |
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02-02-2002, 07:55 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Wichita, Kansas
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AWESOME
FISHME,
You must have been reading my mind....I was about to ask you for some pics of the roots on those groves!!!....Tell us about the micro life that hangs out in those roots? sponges, pods, worms, stars??? any of that kind of stuff?>.....Man I would love to come over and see your setup sometime if im overthere!
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02-02-2002, 08:02 PM
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Council
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
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Venaman,
When I had the hair outbreak I cleaned everything in the system . I thought that the container I had them in might have been a detrius trap because it had a deep sand bed , shallow water , and a slow water flow. The way it is set up here is with a deep water , shallow sand bed , higher flow (approx 300 gph) supplied by a Mag 5 @ 4 FT. Also a Mj 1200 for circulation. |
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02-02-2002, 08:02 PM
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Governor
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Arden, NC USA
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Cool.
They look great. I am pleased with mine.
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02-02-2002, 08:26 PM
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Citizen
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: ssauga ontario canada
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cool
well i have very trace amounts of hair on my live rock and some of the glass. .
nothing i cant easily scrub off, but is this that bad, like will it spread? and does caulerpa and mangroves help prevent these breakouts and spreads thanks |
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02-02-2002, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Pompano Beach, Florida
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Scuba, there really isn't much life other than some pods and worms right now because they were not exposed to any other life forms.They were in the rubbermaid /sandless tub with a water supply that screened out anything before it entered the tub.
They have only been in this tank for a few weeks. The tank to the left of this one is where the overflow from the 20 gal next to it comes from. That tank has my peppermint shrimp and urchins that were removed from my other tanks and placed in there because I didn't want to just throw them away.So I built them their own tank Right now I am hopeing to get some life diversity but am being cautious because I don't want anything to eat the roots as far as like hermits and the wrong kind of snails. I do have one hermit in there but haven't spent to much time adding anything to it yet. I understand there are Mangrove Snails here in South Fl and was thinking about finding some of them . As long as the pod population keeps up then that's cool enough for me. More will come eventually. |
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