I got a ball of cheato to establish a refugium in my sump.
It got past the barrier into the rest of my sump.
For the last 5 months I have been picking it out of my intakes.
I had to put a [shudder] large-pore sponge guard on my main intake after it bollixed up my return pump.
I just cleaned same, and can report that despite no light at all, ever, and being jammed into the sump-partition, cheato has taken to growing on and in the sponge, is flourishing, multiplying, and dark, healthy green.
I've never seen stuff like this. It's scary. There's a reason why it doesn't have roots. It doesn't need them. It thrives by traveling, getting into things where food collects and secretly noshing down on it at night.
It got past the barrier into the rest of my sump.
For the last 5 months I have been picking it out of my intakes.
I had to put a [shudder] large-pore sponge guard on my main intake after it bollixed up my return pump.
I just cleaned same, and can report that despite no light at all, ever, and being jammed into the sump-partition, cheato has taken to growing on and in the sponge, is flourishing, multiplying, and dark, healthy green.
I've never seen stuff like this. It's scary. There's a reason why it doesn't have roots. It doesn't need them. It thrives by traveling, getting into things where food collects and secretly noshing down on it at night.
