I got the AI refugium blade which my lfs told me was a good grower this was about 3 weeks ago. My first 2 "golf ball" sizes died. So then I got 3 and this is them right now.
this is me after clumping it back together which is now pretty small. Now I have read everywhere saying it might be low nutrients but I just did a test and these are phosphate and nitrate...
Next I could think of is flow. Now I will say there was almost no flow before I got a skimmer for the tank now its subpar but I didn't think it was enough so I added a 90gph pump on the baffle before the refugium and has decent flow now and tonight I added an air stone. I'm also dosing chaetogro.
What am I doing wrong? if anything or should I get chaeto from another source or what? Below I will have a picture of all my parameters that I can think of maybe messing it up... thanks
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Next I could think of is flow. Now I will say there was almost no flow before I got a skimmer for the tank now its subpar but I didn't think it was enough so I added a 90gph pump on the baffle before the refugium and has decent flow now and tonight I added an air stone. I'm also dosing chaetogro.
What am I doing wrong? if anything or should I get chaeto from another source or what? Below I will have a picture of all my parameters that I can think of maybe messing it up... thanks
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