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If everything stabilizes with the refugium running, and the cheato stay viable, then that is the way to keep it. If you get rid of the cheato at that point, then the PO4 and NO3 will rise again. If you get things stabilized and the cheato starts to die off, then that is the way to go. The system will tell you what you need to do if you learn its language and you listen to what it is saying. (if you know what I mean)@Lou Ekus You are spot on, I've been feeding pellets heavily and have stopped pellets and moved to frozen once a day. I do have some algae creeping up so I did do small dose of Phosphate RX to get it down a little. I know the algae is consuming the Phos so I'm sure I likely have more Phos then what is showing on the test. I'm going to test Phos every day for a couple weeks until it stabilizes and then likely move to Bacto Balance.
I do run a refugium with Chaeto and I was wondering your thoughts on keeping it going long term (once my Phos stabilizes). If I get P & N where I like them and Bacto Blanca keeps them steady I wonder if the refugium is even needed, our would it even last long term, would the Chaeto eventually just die off?