Chaeto

[Tanthaitrung]

Hi reefers,

At first my chaeto grows fast with 24w white led, running 16 hours/day without sand. My light is just 3 months old. Now the chaeto stops growing because green hair algae cover it but there is no in display tank. My parameters are good, I'm dosing some NO3O4-X daily and NO3 & PO4 are undetectable. When manually removing, I take the chaeto out and rinse but it's broken, so the quantity is decreased and decreased. How to rid this problem?

Thanks in advance

 

[Mad_Reefer]

On my old system it grew very well.
On my new system, I took it out and threw it away. It grew at first, but the slowed and Caulerpa did better.
I suggest that if it doesn't look well, remove it. Maybe leave a small amount of the best part or try a new bunch later.

 

[tinfoilsoldier]

If your levels are undetectable, then the chaeto has nothing to use as energy to grow.

You should just throw away the macro that is covered in hair algae, the chaeto that remains will grow to replace it.

By it's broken, do you mean that it just crumbles in your hand? Or just that when you tear off the outside pieces, there are lots of fragments?

Does you chaeto tumble?

In one of my sumps where it couldn't tumble it just crumbled, even with high nitrates/phosphates.

In my sump with a pump to keep it tumbling it grows nice and dense and is full of amphipods and probably copepods.

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[Tanthaitrung]

On my old system it grew very well.
On my new system, I took it out and threw it away. It grew at first, but the slowed and Caulerpa did better.
I suggest that if it doesn't look well, remove it. Maybe leave a small amount of the best part or try a new bunch later.

Mad_Reefer, thanks so much for your advice :thumbsup:

 

[Tanthaitrung]

If your levels are undetectable, then the chaeto has nothing to use as energy to grow.

You should just throw away the macro that is covered in hair algae, the chaeto that remains will grow to replace it.

By it's broken, do you mean that it just crumbles in your hand? Or just that when you tear off the outside pieces, there are lots of fragments?

Does you chaeto tumble?

In one of my sumps where it couldn't tumble it just crumbled, even with high nitrates/phosphates.

In my sump with a pump to keep it tumbling it grows nice and dense and is full of amphipods and probably copepods.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N920A using Tapatalk

tinfoilsoldier, thanks so much for your help :thumbsup:

I think when rinsing it's crumbled and there are lots of fragments flowed to display tank. If touching it, the fragments inside are flowed again.

Next few days, when changing water, I will clean my sump, rinse the chaeto, just keep small best part and stop dosing NO3O4-X then see what will happen.

My chaeto does not tumble. Do I need a small pump to keep tumbling?

Thanks again