about cheato

Girish23 · Sep 25, 2016

after i reduce the ligth 15 hrs to 9 hrs my sayano and others alage slowliy strating to reduceing is it ok now. i also chenge the light hight towards up. but my cheato is almost
get dead will he recoverd or i add new one.

Esquire805 · Sep 27, 2016

It might if you need some pm me

rock_lobster · Sep 27, 2016

your organics are too high with that much cyano growing. Need to cut the feeding and increase skimming. Chaeto needs only nitrates and phosphates not high organic load. You could also use some activated carbon to quickly lower it.

Esquire805 · Sep 27, 2016

rock_lobster said:
your organics are too high with that much cyano growing. Need to cut the feeding and increase skimming. Chaeto needs only nitrates and phosphates not high organic load. You could also use some activated carbon to quickly lower it.

I hear you do a 3 days of lights off and it goes away you just repeat every so on but activate carbon gets rid of organics

Girish23 · Sep 29, 2016

i reduce the light 15 hrs to 9 hrs all, the alage starting to reduce now but i can't see any cheato in this what should i do ?i use corbon reactor
my cyano is almost nothing on it

Esquire805 · Sep 29, 2016

Girish23 said:
i reduce the light 15 hrs to 9 hrs all, the alage starting to reduce now but i can't see any cheato in this what should i do ?i use corbon reactor
my cyano is almost nothing on it

Buy some more chaetomorpha

Rob77 · Sep 27, 2017

saltyfilmfolks said:
Dis Agee Chato likes dirty ligh. It's a green plant. All bad algae should be in the fuge too. The Phillips is 6500 kelvin it's is close to full spectrum on my color meter and spectrometer. Goes yellow with age.
It will grow corraline too.
10k reef light is not true full spectrum. Not even. Spectrum spread. It's reef spectrum. Blue spike.
Whatt does not indicate intensity. Especially not knowing distance from object.

I use 5600k and 3200 k.

Brown algae on top. Bad flow. You are right
Power head or fix refugium flow.
Chato needs flow.

Also. @Girish23 are you running GFO or chem filters phosban? How old is the tank.
Is the light too close to the Chato.
Picture would be great