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10 gallon planted
Ok please help me with this one .
I have a 10 gallon tank i want to have mangroves in. THIS IS WHAT i was thinking. 5 inch sand bead.Have a small wall maybe 3 -4 pounds live rock aganst one wall takin up 5 inches of the tank.Then an 7 inch sea grass bead.And finaly a 5 inch long retaning wall of live rock with mangrove in it that is leading up to a 3 inch out of water section for fiddler crabs and some dune grass. The tank is 20 long 10 wide and 10 tall
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or maybe instead of the live rock on one side i could have it sete up as...
sea grass 7 inches long 4 deep- small retainer wall 2 inches long - mangoves 5 inches long 6 deep- retainer wall 2 inches - 4 inches long 9 deep above water for dune grass and fidler crabs.
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I think I get the idea of what you're depicting here, but a drawing of the total idea might help us out tremendously in giving you advice.
It sounds like you're wanting to do a mangrove / marsh grass / seagrass tank, yes? First reaction from me - this is ambitious! A larger tank would make this approach much easier to do, however, you might be able to get away with doing the mangrove and seagrass together. FWIW, I typically only see one type of plant on the beaches next to seagrass beds. In the temperate zones, that would be the saltmarsh grasses - cordgrass and such. In the subtropical to tropical areas, mangroves take over. If you're just going to use the rock as retaining walls, I would buy base rock. Maybe a pound or two of live rock at the most. Have you given any thought to the lighting for this setup? A 96w quad PC setup lit my seagrasses beautifully, though it would need to be raised for the mangroves. >Sarah
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For lighting maybe some t5s but most likely a bank of pc around 100watts 6500k
ambitious yes but rewarding and i am a vary diy hands on person so i should manage Sory about pics but i dont have any painting abilitys on my computer it is a bair bones kinda thing that is like 10 years old. 10 gallon would be perfect for me because i first want to see if it is posible to have a tank like this .If it works i will set it up again in a 40 breeder. If i do set it up i would go with a small frog fish do you see any problems with this choice?
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hope that works
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bow down to my awsome drawing power
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How are you going to keep the rocks together. What you could do is get a piece of acrylic and drill holes in it to let water in and such and then attack rubble rock to it for asthetics?(SP)
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Thanks for the reply rat but because of budgit ummmm..............problems i will for the moment i will not be going ahead with my marine planted.
When i do asemble my planted i was thinking using acrilic or egg crate for the lr backing
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