Mangroves and Reef Tanks with Julian Sprung 

Julian Sprung is a treasure.

I learned more things in this video than my biology class.

Julian wrote the book on reefing....a legend...LITERALLY

Absolutely enjoyed this one, thank you! 🌱

Tanks for the view.

My first reef tank was in about '87 and Julian's name was then and remains for me synonymous with good reef tank husbandry advice! Great video.

Legend

what a nice, wonderful man

Julian inspired me to sprout a mangrove prop years ago. It reached 5' tall this summer!

I love these old school guys and their tanks.

What a precious video! Julian Sprung is truly an important man of the reef aquarium world, and his humility seems limitless! I don’t count the nights I spent reading these books, many years ago. It highlights one very important thing: time, long time! Presenting super aquariums, super equipped, that have only a few years of life is not the same thing than an aquarium that’s decades old and filled with beautiful colonies that were originally small fragments . Julian is certainly a man of great patience and serenity, and its contribution to the knowledge of this fascinating world will remain for a very long time. Thank you!

Thank you it was fun.

Awesome

Love when you guys hang around with julian sprung and we get these documentary style vlogs very very goood

This has to be one of MY most FAVORITE videos. Being from Miami, and fishing in the Mangrove estuaries with my Dad, this makes me want to start a mangrove tank.

Gonna watch this a few times over ☺️🌱🐠

A reef tank with proper full grown colonies is beautiful to see, amazing DT

Dudes a legend in the reef community. Wish hed do more vids.

Very nice to see Julian sprung tanks he is an expert in the hobby of saltwater tank good vidéo 🎥

I LOVE this pond! time for some bonsai lessons :-)

Great vid guys thanks

This was wonderful to watch

That was excellent, and really inspirational!! Thank you!

Always love seeing Julian. Great to see his fish collection too, it normally gets overlooked.

Love Julian!!!

Thanks for your information. Julian's explanation was absolutely helpful and professional. I am now able to grow my mangroves a lot better based on his information. Cheers! From South Korea

Fascinating video! Julian, thank you for inviting us into your home!

This was fantastic! Thank you for providing.

Yes I saw the Waikii one it is awesome :) there is something similar in the Florida Keys a reef pond with water pumped in from the ocean directly :)

Good

I Still have my oceanic reef ready I bought in 97 and it's moved with me all over the country and still hold water like a champ. I have had new tanks fail and this one just keeps on going. Old Oceanic tanks were awesome before all glass bought them.

The Best aquarista

I love julian sprung so much man.. i love his tanks. I love his passion his knowledge i love him

Great video! Thanks for sharing🌾🐠🏝

It's awesome to see that Julian applies bonsai techniques to keeping his mangroves. I just learned that red mangroves don't export salt through the leaves from this video, always thought that all mangroves exported salt through the leaves,now I know and maybe I'll try one in one of my freshwater setups to see how it does.

This is life goals right here. As an industrial tech the control panel impressed me the most, the amount of custom programming to set up the PLC to run everything is impressive. The vfd setup costs more than the average house...

Hi Julian, you need to cut below a node for a cutting (do a second cut), by cutting above the node you introduce a disease vector to the cutting (hence why they always shrivel up and die, generally from a bacterial infection). Try cutting below the node and place the cutting in a Grodan Rockwool cube and leave in fresh saltwater, it should produce new fine root growth from the bottom of the cube after a few weeks. No need for cutting powder.

That Emperor Angel is amazing. I'd love to see more of the outdoor pond too, Love it

So much knowledge in this video... I've learn a lot... Wish this could be a 3 hours long vids... Thanks WWC...

I love this, I wish I could sit down and chat with Julian about my mangrove paludarium setup to see if there is anything I could be doing better.

I wont lie this was a small dream i had when i bought my house finally now years later im building a koi pond next year and maybe if that goes easy and well attempt a salt water pond as experiment as easily guess in the reefing hobby 😅 the house if full of tanks now!

those clams what are all of them the blues and greens its insane

I am trying to get back into the reef hobby after awhile of absence and I only have one of my 125 gallon reef tanks in pieces in my home in Las Vegas. Well I am super happy to see the natural way of reef tanks nowadays. I was into that long ago but experimenting. Back then I took down my original 125 gallon that had an overflow box etc and miracle mud sump with macro algae that died the macro algae anyway and replaced with a tank identical but plumbed with a sump with NO SKIMMER and two very high volume IWAKI pumps many times more than required for that tank as rated and a UV in line sterilizer, but the key different was no SKIMMER, hundreds of pounds of live rock, and NO WATER CHANGES FOR 10 YEARS JUST ADDING WATER TO REPLACE THE EVAPORATED WATER BASICALLY! I had most of corrals thrive and fish were healthy overly stocked too in a big way used to have like 50-70 fish in addition to corals at any given time in addition to invertebrates of course. The 9th year they started to die and 10th the last huge blue hippo tang (I had 15 originally) and the Red Sea purple tang with yellow tang died lol. All I did was add tap water and some salt a handful once in awhile and squirt of ca and mg and strontium occasionally. It rocked. So now I see people are thinking like you have been doing for years like the biologist in all of us are excited :) Julliane is The Godfather of reef tanks :)

ok so far this is the very well information about mangrove trees. I have growing in my aquarium last 2 years. and its diffucult for me to grow because i live in Czech Republic so I can not leave outside.

Damn you really trust those stools lol

I absolutely adore this concept, though I live to far north to capitalize on an out door system. His "pond" is quite pretty. Mangroves just feels like a natural extension and progression of a reefing hobby. I'm happy to see both mangroves and macro displays gaining popularity. While I have no intention of putting a tree in my reef, I have seriously considered plumbing a shallow second tank off my sump for that very purpose. Perhaps giving a space for other species like decorative algae, sea grass, or aggressive soft corals like GSP to grow near the tree roots?

Julian, A very interesting video, I find your style of reefing very exciting. Coming from cold and wet England, I love the idea of a garden pond containing corals and clams :-). Hopefully next year I am going to take a Florida vacation, one place on the agenda will be WWC.

A great person, that would be a super neighbor! It's a pity that such people don't live nearby (Germany).

Best Mangrove video ever. I live in Tampa. I wonder if a saltwater pond would work up here?

Beautiful setups (pond and reef with show refugium). I do wonder if the Mangroves in your back yard are in fresh or salt water. If fresh, do you slowly acclimate them to salt? Thanks

I would love to setup a pond like this in my front yard. I live in the Caribbean so the year round temps don't change very much. Do you have a video on setting up something like this as far as proper filtration and maintaining the Salinity etc..?

Viene a México!!!

I would love to do something like this, but I would use the long plastic planter that you would raise vegetables in. I would have it in a greenhouse that I would like to have.

even the pros dont use drip loops lol. the 50g has all the electrical under the tank. risky... i like it :)

Nuesance bushes is all they are. I can't tell you how many times I've had to remove these things for myself and people who want them gone

Who remembers when Julian had a mullet?

Good day mate, splendid what you have done. I have to grow mangrove indoor, my question is how much hidroponic light required? I hv grown mangroves with 5 watt uv light and they died after the first leaves sprung

A very informative video! Julian's passion for saltwater systems is remarkable ! May I know what it means when he mentions "I am a shoemaker" when asked about the maintainence of his reef aquarium?

Does a red mangrove have to be in salt or brackish water to grow their prop roots?

I’m fascinated by his reef pond. How deep is it?

I have 7 25 foot long pothos vines growing out of my 55 gallon planted angel fish tank. I don’t have to do anything with the tank but add water

why your tree is so small ? can it go big to 27 cm diameter ?

Mangrove like Shallow water reef tank =) In fact what would be good, but would have to have the space to do so, would be to create a small beach on one side of the tank which slopes gently towards a greater depth to recreate the initial environment. On the other hand, I did not know this difference between the black mangrove and the green mangrove, thank you =) Life is a cool thing , we are able to learn every day . In fact, if I understand correctly, the Green Mangrove is a Brackish Water Mangrove and the Black Mangrove is a water Mangrove more strongly adapted to exclusively salt water, is that right ? P.S : Sorry i'm french & you know i my country it's compliquely to speak in other language than french , so i understand your language but not very very well , i search my word everythime etc .

Nice i was thinking of using mangrove plant in my freshwater tank emerged will there be any issue or does mangrove plant require salt water i am actually a freshwater tank person, but i am interested to use mangrove plant in my tank

What type of mangrove?

How do you maintain salinity outdoors? I live in Miami, we had 5 inches of rain on June 4 this year, serveral inches a day are common in summer

Is the pond connected to the system inside?

Any good fertilizer for a mangrove? I just grow the tree.

One question please, I have 11 small mangroves growing in the filter of a 37 liter tank, are those roots going to crack my tank at the back. I'm looking at getting a small goldfish pond to replant them in salt water with my water changes water.

Has anyone ever succeeded in rooting or air layering mangroves?

I am going to start a Brackish Water Tank half water half land with mud skippers and other Brackish water fish.

Rooting hormone is the best

Is the new type of LED light not running as warm as the metal halides did?

Plz tell us weather mangrove consume amonia if yes what percentage

Whats the dimension of the reef ? Its look smaller than a 250. And is that an emperor angel in there ?

Can you grow mangroves in a bog garden?

That emperor angel fish don’t bother or eat your corals?

I’m late on this video, but does anyone know what happened to the blue gigas he had in his coral display? I’m betting it had to be re-homed.

How do i contact julian about questions with my mangrove?

They gave me a fine of 50 thousand pesos for having a red mangrove in my aquarium .pd. they do not fulfill or sell mangroves in Mexico