Chaeto... HOLY CRAP!

[quiksilver]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11691123#post11691123 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by xtm
You're a Premium member... why use Google to search RC?

HEHE. You are as well, can't you answer your own question


To answer your first question, I use a 5,100K low wattage/high output normal socket PC bulb. Fuge Bulbs

 

[xtm]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11691266#post11691266 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Saltz Creep
I only had chaeto

sorry, I meant Chaeto. What lighting do you use?

 

[Saltz Creep]

http://www.melevsreef.com/fuge_bulb.html

 

[GoblinFish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=5410812#post5410812 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Saltz Creep
My phosphates and nitrates are both 0 (Salifert)

I pull out a salt bucket full out of my fuge about every 2-3 weeks.

I have one of these bulbs in my fuge but my chaeto disintegrated in about 2 weeks, ill buy one more light and give it another shot.

 

[chrismunn]

halimeada is calcerous, and not an ideal canidate for nutrient export

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

What kind of flow does everyone recommend? Heavy and direct? Tumbling? Low, and let the Cheato settle?

Thanks for the links guys, just ordered that bulb as well.

 

[mattypw]

Sounds like your find. Just sell the excess

 

[stylie]

I dont have a refugium yet. Can I purchase some of this and just throw it in the display tank for now? Im seeing some hair algae start.

 

[Tangweed]

I want to buy some cheato but can't find it.

 

[jenglish]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15051982#post15051982 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tangweed
I want to buy some cheato but can't find it.

You can buy it on many websites, but if there is a local reef club that may be the way to go. I throw away chaeto regularly so if someone wants a start in the club I just give it away. There is very likely someone throwing it away locally where you are as well

 

[Tangweed]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15052026#post15052026 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jenglish
You can buy it on many websites, but if there is a local reef club that may be the way to go. I throw away chaeto regularly so if someone wants a start in the club I just give it away. There is very likely someone throwing it away locally where you are as well

Thanks! I'll start a thread later... Anyone throwing cheato away

 

[RumLad]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15052055#post15052055 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tangweed
Thanks! I'll start a thread later... Anyone throwing cheato away

Post that request in your local reef club website (see way down on the bottom of the RC forum home page.) You'll have folks lining up to give you some of their trimmings.

 

[sreefs]

Jeremy
You pay for shipping I will send you some. As much as you want.
Pat

 

[fufu]

I been reading and so jealous of you guys, my chaeto is getting smaller everyday, seems to be dying, I have them under 2 PC and seems to be starving. It been 6 month now and I have not been able to harvest any.

 

[sreefs]

fufu
Try dosing a small amount of iron!
Pat

 

[1DeR9_3Hy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15056583#post15056583 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fufu
I been reading and so jealous of you guys, my chaeto is getting smaller everyday, seems to be dying, I have them under 2 PC and seems to be starving. It been 6 month now and I have not been able to harvest any.

Do you have enough No3 & Po4 to sustain growth? It could be that you dont have enough of either...

 

[fufu]

I have alot of live rock and skim very wet, I dont have algae growing, so I guess my water just really low in nutrients.

 

[Morpheous]

I have just got a bag of cheato from my LFS. It come with all sorts of living organism in it. Previously my fishes got ick from them. This time, I am quarantining them for a month before introducing to the sump. However I still worry about the living stuffs in the chaeto as i read some pods maybe parasitic.. Any opinions?

 

[SpencerG]

Definitely a good thing! Just get out the pruning shears. I have some that I have under a cheap clip on lamp with a CF daylight bulb from Home Depot, and it has grown quickly as well to the point where I'm going to be pruning this weekend.