So I started feeding a more as I recently added some new fish and noticed that a couple of my existing fish were looking a bit thin. But the reason I had been feeding sparingly in the first place was to try to keep algae under control. Not surprisingly, since I started feeding more I've been seeing more algae as well as some cyano start to pop up.
My plan to combat this is to try to get my refugium to be actually functional. Up until now it really hasn't been doing well. I modified my sump a bit to increase it's size and got a better light for it. There is some caulerpa in there that has been doing marginally well (although the new light seems to be helping), but I'd really like to get some cheato established in the fuge.
About a year ago I went through an ich outbreak in my DT that required me to catch all of my fish and treat them and leave the tank fallow to get rid of it. Since I don't want to go through that again I have decided not to put anything that I don't quarantine first into the tank.
I do have some cheato and a few other inverts in a 72 day quarantine, but I'm only 14 days into it and I'd really like to get some cheato started in the fuge now before the cyano and nuisance algae gets a stronger foothold.
I saw that algae barn "˜clean cheato' advertised that is supposed to come from clean tanks so theoretically it doesn't have any diseases or pests. It's also pretty expensive. Would you trust their clean cheato and put it in a tank with no quarantine or do you think I'm better off just waiting for my existing cheato to finish it's quarantine?
My plan to combat this is to try to get my refugium to be actually functional. Up until now it really hasn't been doing well. I modified my sump a bit to increase it's size and got a better light for it. There is some caulerpa in there that has been doing marginally well (although the new light seems to be helping), but I'd really like to get some cheato established in the fuge.
About a year ago I went through an ich outbreak in my DT that required me to catch all of my fish and treat them and leave the tank fallow to get rid of it. Since I don't want to go through that again I have decided not to put anything that I don't quarantine first into the tank.
I do have some cheato and a few other inverts in a 72 day quarantine, but I'm only 14 days into it and I'd really like to get some cheato started in the fuge now before the cyano and nuisance algae gets a stronger foothold.
I saw that algae barn "˜clean cheato' advertised that is supposed to come from clean tanks so theoretically it doesn't have any diseases or pests. It's also pretty expensive. Would you trust their clean cheato and put it in a tank with no quarantine or do you think I'm better off just waiting for my existing cheato to finish it's quarantine?
