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So I put bunch of macro's in what I've designated as my fuge section of my sump and I've run into a few issues. First off, I only have a handful of small rocks in there and immediately I noticed that the chaeto was getting caught on it, so I put a piece of plexi in there to separate the rock area from the chaeto area and now the chaeto tumbles nicely from the over flow pipe. Now the problem is I had no noticeable flow in the other part of the fuge for the other macro's so I put a small power head in there...its working fine except all the macro's are stuck to it. Will the macro's grow fine stuck to the power head? Any other suggestions?
 

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My chaeto gets hooked up on the rock and it's been no biggy. I don't believe it's actually necessary for it to tumble. Just keeps its ball shape if it does. Otherwise it still grows.
I wouldn't want it stuck to a power head though. May burn the power head out.
 

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What other species of Macro Algae do you have. What I generally do with new Algae additions is put them in a low flow area with rubble to see if they will attach. If they do not, I either glue or rubberband them onto rubble. This works very well for me.
 

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