briank Posted March 10, 2004 Report Share Posted March 10, 2004 Hi All, Anyone using Mangrove Plant as natural filtration? Last month or so I found alot of mangrove seed floating around the beach on Northshore so I pick some up and planted those in my sump. The have grown to about 3 in high. Did anyone tried this method and how affective is it? Cheers Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 Not tried it but will be very interested in how it goes. Is it a marine tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briank Posted March 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 yes its a cold water marine. I will post some picture of it later. I have continued with my cold water marine setup but have added a plastic sump plus now it also has mangrove plant growing in it. Over the the last few months my tank setup has crashed due to salinity problems and heat. Now, I have moved it to an area where there is no sun light, so its more reliant on artificial light and can control heat better. I have lost quite a few of the inhibitants but luckily the green anenome and shrimps had survived.. I am not sure how to evaluate the effectiveness of the mangrove filtration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted March 11, 2004 Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 I know a few people on line who use Mangroves in their refugium. None of them have made any claims as to improvement but they are growing. One guy in .au uses them in an attempt to remove Nitrate, but he said it hasn't worked even though has has 6 plants growing well. He is going to keep them though. Good luck would love to know how you get on. Pies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briank Posted March 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2004 thanks. I guess there is no harm keeping them in the system. I look up the net, and found lots of ppl claiming that it is good. It would be nice to know someone in NZ is using them and had done a proper analysis of the affectiveness of mangrove. they were lots of it mangrove seed on the beach during the summer, so they are cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicks Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Hi Brian, Drop me your email address and I will put you on the Marine Clubs mailing list, Lots of guys have tanks on the shore so would be interested in updates on native set-ups. I would love to have a proper refugium using mangroves, caulerpa, mud etc. Must be good for a natural system. On there own I have not heard mangroves do to much for Nitrate removal. but they must be good for a natural system. Heaps of NSW would also be good to reduce Nitrates and organics etc. Good Reefing Nick Sparks [email protected] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briank Posted March 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2004 Hi Nick, thank you. my email is [email protected]. I am surprise to hear that Mangrove did not seem to reduce nitrates, since after searching the internet and reading so much good things about it. At the moment, I have no way of knowing the nitrate level in my tank but I do notice foam that occurs after feeding dissappears faster than just with filtration. On the weekend I bough 2 small mushrooms for my tank, I am waiting to see if they would survive my tank. One of it is green and the other is brown, the green one is opening up but the brown one appear damaged when they scrap it off the tank walls.. At the moment I have them pin down onto a piece of rock using a plastic net so they would attach to it. Cheers, Brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted March 15, 2004 Report Share Posted March 15, 2004 Brian the mushrooms will be fine. Someone sent me some and they were in a plastic bag for 4 days without water, they survived fine! I also tried to take one out for a friend the other day, riped it into 3 pieces and left some on the rock. He now has 3 mushrooms and I still have the 1 I gave him The guy in .au has a 700 litre tank, and about 1000 litres of plumbing too! But he is struggling with Nirtate. He is just about to start using Zeovit product in the hope of reducing them. He is going to keep his mangroves, he said more than anything they are a bit different. Good luck sounds like a fun project. Pies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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