红树林是礁石水族馆系统的流行补充,我们最近将注意力集中在礁石建筑工作室的所有新发现空间上。简单地保留一些很容易Rhizophora红树林的豆荚充满了基本照明及其在水族馆水中的根源,但这永远不会导致大型,郁郁葱葱,艳丽的榜样,这些树木的树木容纳和建造热带海岸线。
Earlier this year we received about a dozen fresh mangrove tree pods, hand-delivered by one of the biggest champions of mangrove trees in the aquarium hobby, Julian Sprung of Two Little Fishies. Under bright lighting we managed to get a really great sprouting of these pods within a couple of months, with virtually all of the young trees developing approximately four leaves spread across two nodes.
考虑到这一早期成功,我们决定进行一个超级基本的实验,以查看我们是否可以为自己的树林提供一种更有营养的底物,以使其根源生长,而不是仅出于便利而使用的后者石灰岩砾石。很容易推测,这些热带树木受益于亮度的强烈阳光水平,但是由于它们倾向于在沿海泥浆中生长,其中包含的所有微量元素和营养素。
我们在不同的底物中种植了两个独立的红树林豆荚,并将其张贴在窗户中,以使它们最大的阳光暴露。在一个玻璃播种机中,我们使用了两个小钓鱼Reborn,广泛用作首选钙反应堆介质,在另一个我们使用了Brightwell AquaticsFlorinvolcanit, a popular pelletized clay substrate for freshwater planted aquariums. These two trees were essentially grown like a potted plant, kept in freshwater, and watered from a well stocked rainbowfish tank to provide a natural source of phosphate, nitrate, and other nutrients.
After just three months of growth we kind of assumed that the mangrove seedling would grow slightly better in the substrate designed for growing plants, but the visual difference has been nothing short of remarkable. Aside from the identical size of the original seed pod, the tree planted in the freshwater substrate has grown about twice as much, with larger leaves and two more fully developed nodes than the seedling kept in the Reborn.
In discussing the outcome of this basic experiment with Mr. Mangrove Sprung, he posited that the freshwater substrate might actually be providing some phosphate to the tree, and suggested testing the residual water for PO4. We did just that and low and behold, the pelletized clay substrate water has a concentration of 0.14 ppm of phosphate while the water in the reborn media was lower at 0.04 ppm of phosphate.
随着磷酸盐的增加,弗洛林沃尔卡尼特(Florinvolcanit)中的红树林幼苗的增长远远超过了大多数珊瑚礁诉诸的典型的省级底物。回想起来reallyshould have also tried using Two Little Fishies’ Outsanding Selections substrate which was formulated to provide added minerals and trace elements beneficial to plant growth, which Mr. Sprung is confident is an ideal substrate for mangroves due to its higher content of iron.
我们非常热衷于建造和设计礁石建筑工作室的红树林水族馆。因此,我们将继续研究诸如红树林这样的盐水耐受树木的理想底物,并一定会报告我们还有什么unearth。