红树林树,Rhizophora mangle, is a common sight around saltwater aquariums, reef tanks and local fish stores where fresh seed pods are sold and kept. What is not a common sight is for a mangrove tree to be doing especially well and growing because aquarists treat this noble plant like a piece of house ivy.
For some reason it has come into relatively common practice for saltwater aquarium keepers to purchase one or more mangrove seed pods but without any real attention to the care requirements. Most reefers simply place these pour souls in some random area of the aquarium with their leaves above the water, and not much else is given to their specific care requirements.
让我们将其分解给您,红树林是不是就像房子常春藤一样,您不能简单地将红树林放在水族馆中,并希望它们做得很好。红树林是高能量活植物,需要强烈的光,适当的生长培养基,并且经常在水族馆里做得很好,更不用说生长了。
To be clear, mangrove trees should probably never be placed right里面the aquarium, as most aquarium setups are designed to have bright lights placed directly above the tank, close to the water surface. Mangrove trees need to breathe so their leaves should emerge from well above the aquarium water.
If you truly want to keep mangrove, and want them to thrive, you should provide these high energy trees in an area of their own, where a dedicated light can offer them very strong illumination. In public displays the lighting for mangrove trees usually consists of very intense metal halide lighting, if not full exposure to sunlight, at least for part of the day.
其次,红树林需要将其植根于适当的生长培养基中,以获取生长所需的必要营养素。您用来种植和种植红树林的底物应该足够深,以使树根支撑一棵好树,但是由于缺乏氧气而导致缺氧区域发育不足。
最后,最重要的是,红树林需要定期冲洗淡水,以将盐从叶子的表面洗净。红树林可以在盐水中生存的主要原因是因为它们的叶子中有特殊的腺体有助于提取盐。
This extracted salt builds up on the surface on mangrove tree leaves, and in nature, a regular sea mist or rainfall would generally remove this salty build up. The regular rinsing of mangrove tree leaves cannot be overstated, especially in healthy growing trees that are given the intense lighting that they need.
这篇文章的灵感来自我们在圣地亚哥Scripps海洋学研究所对桦木水族馆进行的一次访问。在幕后我们看到了最美丽的树林之一Rhizophora红树林树s which were being tended to while we were there.
The mangroves at the Birch Aquarium were given the white green thumb treatment with a dedicated ‘deep sand’ section in which the trees could truly grow their roots, and they were illuminated using a 1000 watt metal halide lamp. In addition to receiving regular misting with fresh water to rinse of the salt from the leaves, a sprinkler system is installed to further rinse the leaves during days in which a staffer is unavailable to do so manually.
红树林是雄伟的树木,在大多数家庭水族馆设置中都被降级为水族馆装饰品。如果您真的想保留和种植红树林作为家庭水族馆的一部分,请给他们他们需要壮成长的东西,您将为您的水族馆展示带来动态而有趣的新维度。