tonym10
Premium Member
I added a HOB refugium to my sump 2 weeks ago. I did it to stop a brown hair algae on a small part of my overflow. The things I noticed so far are:
1. Phosphates went from .2 to .05 or less.
Nitrates were always 0.
2. The front glass stays cleaner longer.
3. The brown algae is slowly going away, and I think if I manually remove it it would not come back.
4. My Pom Pom Xenia are growing much slower, which is a good thing because I used to have to remove large pieces of it as it grew too fast.
The Chaeto in the refuge has doubled in size and density in the 2 weeks, it was a small piece to start , about 2"x3" oval shaped piece.
1. Phosphates went from .2 to .05 or less.
Nitrates were always 0.
2. The front glass stays cleaner longer.
3. The brown algae is slowly going away, and I think if I manually remove it it would not come back.
4. My Pom Pom Xenia are growing much slower, which is a good thing because I used to have to remove large pieces of it as it grew too fast.
The Chaeto in the refuge has doubled in size and density in the 2 weeks, it was a small piece to start , about 2"x3" oval shaped piece.
