#1 An open top aquarium.
#2 Pendant lights
#3 Small pots about 4" across and 3" deep shaped like a bowl is best.
# 4 A swamp to comb through for trees best shaped for this type of cutivation.
# 5 A plastic kiddie wading pool to get your swamp trees started in.
# 6 Azolla to keep down the mosquitos
# 7 Potting soil and gravel.
# 8 When you are ready to tranfer the trees to your aquarium you will need about 6" of sand in your tank.
# 9 Lots of time, it takes two to three years for the trees to be ready to transplanted into an aquarium.
# 10 Most of my older trees I lost to a stray dog chewing them up, some were more than 10 years old and I still had them in a pool.
# 11 I you are lucky you might find a bigger tree that is suitable for transplanting but it will take at least a year for it to get rooted in good.
# 12 As soon as I get my high speed connection back I'll start sending pictures both from the field and from home to show you how this is done.
# 13 Mangrove trees are a lot easier to do and cuts the time involved down considerably and they grow under metal halides. Many swamp trees will not.
# 14 Mangroves can be planeted directly into an aqarium with a deep sand bed as long as the leaves are out of the water.
Edited by Moontanman, 11 March 2008 - 06:40 PM.
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