10 Gallon Mangal

Well at this point I thought that I would provide an update to things. I am now down to just 1 gold striped and 2 copper striped cardinalfish. Also I have added in 5 astrea snails and an emerald crab (which I have not seen since I put him in the tank. The 4 small snails are still there doing fine along with the shrimp.







The mangroves are still growing a little, but not much. The one that I broke the top off of seems to be budding out a new stalk, but I will have to wait and see if that happens (fingers crossed). Another thing that I have noticed is that the woody part of the stems are starting to grow outward. Also my tank got really low on water and covered one of the smaller mangroves in salt spray. By the time I got to it, it was too late.

Growth shot of the roots.


See the little bud, maybe it will turn into something...


See how the stock is splitting. My guess is that the stem/trunk is growing.


Death by salt spray. It is to entangled in the rockwork to remove it.


The red algae that I got for the tank is all but gone. I don't know if it was the sunlight, but it just did not do to well.

I took a new position at my work, and as a result I will be loosing my window office for a cubical. That also means I will be moving the tank a short distance. I will post pictures of the move.

Aloha,

Mangroves grow much better in conditions of 80% humidity more akin to their natural environment. My guess is that the vertical splits on the trunk is growth as it appears in the 20% humidity environment of Utah.
I don't know if I showed this before but here is a pic of Mangroves as they grew bushy in my enclosed sump. All this new green growth you see in this pic happened in about a year. Just thought it might be helpful to see the comparison.



Mark
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I have changed a few things out to help the mangroves and I will see how well it helps. I changed the CF light to a 75W plant light, and I spray the plants several times during the day. The reason is that an office is rather low on humidity, and that is my way to combat that.

Another change I made was to start using a phosphate absorbing media along with carbon. This is in a hopes that I can help get rid of the green hair algae that has found a home in a few spots. Also there has been an outbreak of green slim algae on the sand, and I hope to get that under control soon.

I added some LED lights to the tank, and that has helped me keep some different corals, and it has made the previous ones much more happy.

Also I have added a few things to the tank. Two weeks ago I added about 5 snails, an emerald crab, a hermit crab, red macro algae, and green mermaids cup macro. Also I now have a frog spawn, green star polyps, green mushrooms, blundel buttons, and a kenya tree. All of those are doing well. I did add a cutting from my gorgonian, but it is not doing so well. Also the sebae anemone I added a few weeks back disappeared and I can not find it, so I think it passed away. Also this week I added in a pair of clownfish.

Here are some updated pics.




Edited by WhiteReef - October 24 2013 at 12:14pm

Awesome! I can't wait to see some pictures!

Wish I would have!  I'm super nervous on the transplant (already done).  We'll see if they pull through.

Oh, on an interesting note. I added 4 fish, 2 clowns and 2 sunshine chromis. The clownfish disappeared, and one of the chromis. Also I added an anemone, but that also disappeared. The rumor in the office was that the cleaning crew took them since there was nothing left in the tank that would have indicated where they went. However, after being out on vacation for a week, when I came back one of the clown fish showed up. The thing that is funny about it, no one in the office claims to have added it and I have a hard time believing that after so long the fish would just show up after being missing for several weeks. Good mystery!

Edited by WhiteReef - April 28 2014 at 4:57pm

Update: The tank had a horrible algae bloom. I suspect it was due to others in the office over feeding. I worked on solving the issue, but it really did not get any better. As a result I chose to break down the tank and bring it home for some remodeling. However, the stress of the move killed everything! Ugh! @#$%@$. Anyway, at this time the tank is no longer. However, I may at some future point start it back up again.