How do you grow Chaeto for food?

[rm]

I want to grow chaeto and use it as a food source for my tang and foxface. Can someone tell me the best way to grow it? I have a fuge running off the main tank but to not want to feed macro growing in the fuge to the fish.

lfs recommended iron supplement; lights; put a small liverock in my 10g QT tank and away you go. Is it that easy?

Thanks

 

[WaterKeeper]

It should do fine in a illuminated QT. I'm not really sure why you would need the LR. When you do a water change use the tank water to replace the water in the QT. That should provide fertilizer for the Chaeto in itself.

 

[rm]

Thanks waterkeeper.

 

[DgenR8]

Somehow, I'm doubting that your fish will find Chaeto to be a tasty snack. I have never tried it though.

 

[rm]

DgenR8,

I bought a small ball of chaeto and put it in the main tank while I setup the QT. My Tang and Foxface went right after it. They had nori to choose from at the same time so I'm pretty sure they think it's tasty.

 

[DgenR8]

I guess the proof is in the pudding

 

[aquawolf]

Just keep light on the chaeto and it will grow.

I had the same thing happen. I bought some chaeto while waiting to set up my fuge. Well my Foxface and purple tang went to town on it and I needed to buy more once I got the fuge set up.

Now, when it is time to prune the chaeto in the fuge I just rinse it in fresh RO water and then add it to the display tank for a treat.

Thus far it hasn't had any negative impact on the systemor fish.