The red mangrove tree,Rhizophora Mangle这是盐水水族馆,礁坦克和当地鱼类商店周围的常见景象,那里出售并保存新鲜的种子豆荚。并非常见的景象是红树林的表现特别好,并且成长,因为水产师将这种高贵的植物像一块常春藤一样对待。
由于某种原因,对于盐水水族馆饲养员购买一个或多个红树林种子豆荚,但没有任何真正关注护理要求,它已经成为相对普遍的做法。大多数珊瑚礁只是将这些倾倒灵魂放在水族馆的某些随机区域,并在水上上方放置叶子,而没有太多的特定护理要求。
Let us break it to you, Mangroves arenotlike house ivy at all, and you can’t simply place a mangrove in your aquarium and hope that they do well. Mangrove trees are high energy living plants which need intense light, a proper growth medium, and frequent rinses of freshwater to do well in an aquarium, let alone grow.
需要明确的是,红树林可能永远不会被正确放置inside水族馆,因为大多数水族馆的设置都被设计为将明亮的灯光放在水箱上方,靠近水面。红树林需要呼吸,因此它们的叶子应该从水族馆水上方浮出水面。
如果您真的想保留红树林,并希望它们蓬勃发展,则应该在自己的区域内提供这些高能量树,在那里专用的光可以为它们提供非常强烈的照明。在公共场所展示的红树林的照明通常由非常强烈的金属卤化物照明组成,即使不是充分暴露于阳光,至少在一天中的一部分中。
Secondly, mangrove trees need to root down into a proper growth medium from which to obtain necessary nutrients required for growth. The substrate you use to grow and plant a mangrove tree should be deep enough for the tree roots to support a nice tree, but it shouldn’t be so fine as to cause anoxic regions to develop due to the absence of oxygen.
Finally and most importantly, mangrove trees require a regular rinsing of freshwater to wash away the salt from the surface of their leaves. The primary reason that mangrove trees can survive in saltwater at all is because they have special glands in their leaves that help to extract salt.
这种提取的盐在红树林叶子的表面上积聚,在自然界中,普通的海雾或降雨通常会消除这种咸的堆积。红树林叶子的常规冲洗不能被夸大,尤其是在健康的生长树木中,这些树木被赋予了所需的强烈照明。
The inspiration for this write up came from a visit we made to the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego. Behind the scenes we saw one of the most beautiful groves of根茎我们在那里时倾向于的红树林。
桦木水族馆的红树林通过专用的“深沙”部分进行了白色绿色拇指处理,树木可以真正生长它们的根,并使用1000瓦金属卤化物灯照亮它们。除了接收淡水以从叶子冲洗盐的定期雾气外,还安装了一个洒水系统,以进一步冲洗叶子,在不可用的工作人员无法手动进行的几天中。
Mangroves are majestic TREES that have been relegated to an aquarium ornament in most home aquarium setups. If you truly want to keep and grow a mangrove as part of your home aquarium, please give them what they need to thrive and you will be rewarded with a dynamic and interesting new dimension to your aquarium display.