headhawg7
Premium Member
This is the dilema I have: I have a 30g refugium with a 2" sand bed with live sand and about 30lbs of LR. I have had my fuge going now for about 7 months. I put a dual 85w incadecent flood light setup on the fuge and it was about 4" from the water surface. I started to get alot of hair algae growing before I got my Chaetomorpha algae. Once I did recieve my Chaeto I cleaned all the hair algae out of the fuge and put some Mexican turbos in there. After I put in the Chaeto it became white rather quickly and started to wilt. I figured the bulbs were to close at 4" and moved them to about 12". I put about 20 Mexican turbos in there about a month ago and all but 2 have died. The hair algae is back and growing on the Chaeto and has just about covered it. I have alot of Mexican turbos in my main tank and they do fine. I have no hair algae in my main tank at all. My main tank is spotless as far as bad microalgaes go.
The Chaeto I put in the fuge was about the size of a softball. It has all but wilted and been covered in hair algae.
What I was planning on doing, and would like some incite on, was to add a bunch more algae that I can find locally, mainly tang heaven and grape and feather caulerpa and whatever else I can find locally that is pretty common at most LFS. The problem I have is the algae going sexual since I have a reverse light cycle. Should I do what I just mentioned and also purchase a whole bunch nore Mexican turbos? Any thoughts? Thanks Danny
The Chaeto I put in the fuge was about the size of a softball. It has all but wilted and been covered in hair algae.
What I was planning on doing, and would like some incite on, was to add a bunch more algae that I can find locally, mainly tang heaven and grape and feather caulerpa and whatever else I can find locally that is pretty common at most LFS. The problem I have is the algae going sexual since I have a reverse light cycle. Should I do what I just mentioned and also purchase a whole bunch nore Mexican turbos? Any thoughts? Thanks Danny