10 gallon planted

[Redstratplayer]

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

[Redstratplayer]

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.

[Samala]

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

[Redstratplayer]

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?

[Redstratplayer]

hope that works

[Redstratplayer]

bow down to my awsome drawing power

[ratimpulse]

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)

[Redstratplayer]

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