Re: [GSAS-Member] Mangrove plants at fishstore

[Linda Knapp <linda@bozuk.org>]

Sumps are often a 20 or so gallon aquarium - or a fancier acrylic box  
with built in dividers and such. water runs from the main tank into it  
and usually through filters, protein skimmers and by heaters etc along  
the way.  Often somewhere in the sump setup there is a section with  
live rock which provides more filtration and a section where you grow  
macro algae or mangroves  to harvest nutrients. The macro algae is cut  
out and either discarded or feed to plant loving saltwater fish. Of  
course to grow the plants you need lights and since the light cycle  
causes PH differences often the sump lights are on opposite the main  
tank lights.

The other place you often see a Mangrove is in a hang off the back  
refugeum which general has some live rock and algae.

Now I wanted a Mangrove for a planned mudskipper tank.....

Cheers!
Linda


On Jul 12, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Shango Los wrote:

> So let me repeat that...people plant this plant in their sump?   
> Isn't that a
> closed device?  I don't have any experieince with that.
>
> Thanks for tolerating this totally noob question.
>
> Shango
>
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