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You have the most amazing Prop tanks I have ever seen. Hats off to you!!
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. . . not cool . . doh . . man Can you post more pictures on the mangrove part of your system. and more information(lighting, how ofter you spray the salt off their leaves,etc).
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chopsuey, I love your use of that Singer cartoon in your avatar. I like his stuff.
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The Mangrove lighting in my prop consists of two fixtures with 4 Sunpro tubes 54w each (total 216w) ATI tubes. I try to spray with osmosis water every day but many days I forget. As Mangrove consumes large quantities of magnesium I supplement twice as much groTech magnesium in the calcium reactor to compensate. In the Mangrove tank i use one Tunze pulse pump. When i had my home aquariums, I had two mangrove tanks belonged to the system and i took care of them as bonsai, up to 13 years old. Now they are not bonsai anymore because they have much space up to grow. Some Mangrove bonsai pics taken 5 years ago when they were part of my home aquariums system, under HQI lamps: Other bonsai view Bonsai leaves after pruning |
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Bonsai after pruning
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First bonsai aerial root (hard core pic ????)
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Now Mangrove after moved to my prop system
Do you remember that hard core pic? At same time, strange things was occurring in my aquarium, as you can see!!!. Coincidences... Take another look!!! |
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Caprices of the Mother Nature...
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Thats a crack up Machado
Reminds me of the picture of the hairy clam that was going around a few years ago Oh, and beautiful mangroves. I like your spot lighting too.
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fantastic I think i'm in love I think I might do something like that
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Hi Giga!
The day you visit me you can take too this sexy Sarco with you and you have not to pay more beers for that...ok? You've got a friend! |
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This is a truly amazing hobby! Its people like you that are going to save our Coral Reefs! GREAT SETUP.
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Very nice set-up. Its good to see you're doing your part.
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Thanks for your support words, Global warming affect the reefs in a planetary scale, everybody knows that. The reefs exploitation for tourism proposes gives us pleasure and commodity when we visit that paradises, provide income to the countries which reefs belong, but the creatures living there have no advantages at all and they are once more prejudiced. The number of reef keepers in the world increases every year, and the reefs exploitation for commercial proposes removing live rocks, fishes, corals, invertebrates from the oceans they belong to supply the hobby all over the world also increases. This may not be the cause of the reefs destruction, but this will help, it will ... We love the reefs, we use to say, but we need to have a new look to the reef keeping! Uff!!! |
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That's very good, fish porn, very funny!
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Machado you have inspired me too clean up my grenhouse and add mangroves . You are an insperation for us all. thankyou
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I think that only a heavy mass may be useful for nutrient export in a aquarium, depending of the water volum, obviously. I have them long time ago because I love these plants as i love fishes and corals. Cheers, |
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Fantastic setup up, Machado..Greetings. I was just curious, what bulb configuration are you using on your T5s? The coloring and clarity is fantastic...Beautiful
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Its not commercial if he isnt trying to sell anything. I guess you havent read all the threads that have been floating around for a long time about coral prop. greenhouses in the section"Coral Propagation and Aquaculture", which is what this section is actually meant for. So I think you stuck your foot in your mouth on that one. You should really read the rules for this section before trying to point fingers at somebody. Rules of the Game |
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hola Machado,
What media do you inside your calcium reactor ? Do you add any dolomite to the reactors so they can add magnesium ? Great Setup ! Last edited by jman77; 10/28/2007 at 10:28 AM. |
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Hi Jman77, I missed your avatar...and your comments!
In my calcium reactors i use Caribsea A.R.M Reactor Media, USA product, mixed with GroTech Magnesium Pro (10%). Cheers, |
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Hello
I take espña and I was foolish to see these colors and coral. Congratulations on keeping these parts, because we live near have to escaparnos to see it close The left-handed compliments |
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Thanks for your words I use ATI T5 tubes in all tanks, including algae filters and Mangrove tanks. About wattage Main tanks: Maternity: 4 Blue Special 80W + 4 Blue Plus 80W = 640W Nursery: 3 Blue Special 80W + 3 Blue Plus 80W = 480W Day-care: 5 Blue Special 80W + 5 Blue Plus 80W = 800W Support tanks: Mangroves tank: 4 Sunpro 54W= 216W Algae filter: 2 Sunpro 54W= 108W These are the spectrum of ATI Tubes I use in main tanks: Cheers, |
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This was your first post! Welcome to this thread and to RC. As we are neighbors, come here in the evening to take a coffee otherwise i go to Valencia to eat a paelha! De acuerdo? Lol Cheers, |
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Machado deSousa,
Absolutely awesome!! You have inspired me. I have a quaetion about the success rate of your specimens. For example for every 100 cuttings, how many cuttings thrive? I have had nice success, but I have a loss ratio higher than I am happy with.
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