Chaeto Alternatives for Refugium

[TWYOUNG]

Kinda everything, but roughed up acrylic screens, work really good. I like it because after everything was very established, I added an urchin to my sump and he eats it as fast as it grows.

I occasionally drop a large turbo in my fuge but I always wonder if it isn't better to manually remove algae instead of allowing it to become snail waste and contribute to nutrients.

 

[nuxx]

Have a tank full of Tangs, Triggers and full sized Angels if you really want to see Chaeto grow...

I was talking out a contractor bag of the stuff each month...

 

[Nemo&Friends]

Never succeeded with Uva. Codium and caulerpa grow best with me. Did not succeed with chaeto either, but I do not like the look of it anyway, so I am not going to try again.

 

[WhatCouldGoWrong71]

Ive taken the lazy approach in one of my systems too. Chaeto was doing barely ok. I was getting turf algae from time to time. This last time I had to pull my rocks out for a different reason and wound up scrubbing all the turf off all the rocks with peroxide. Ironically, shortly after doing this GHA in my Fuge took off and out competed the Chaeto. The GHA is about a 2 inches thick mat on top of the water. The Chaeto is within the GHA. The GHA is super dark green and really healthy looking. Knock on wood this keeps up, but I don’t have any in my display. So if it wants to live in my Fuge I’m OK with that. I am building a filter set up to ensure if any make it out of my Fuge it won’t get pushed up to my display. My nutrients are 7.7 and .06. It’s currently running opposite my light schedule but I don’t struggle with PH, my average is about 8.48 (I do multiple things to keep it there). Why are folks shutting their Fuge light off with a ph >8.5?

 

[ナイトコア猫]

Ulva in my DT?

Algae Barn was out of Chaeto for a long time so I went with Ulva instead in my refugium. The Ulva is growing well, but noticed that the small pieces were clogging my sump bubble filter so I put a piece of egg crate and screen in my refugium to prevent this from happening. This is working fairly...

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This is a good angle to consider. I didn't think about what would happen if these pieces were broken.

 

[dangles]

Chaeto actually does pretty good in my system. It was difficult to get started, and tried to die a couple of times early on, but once I turned on the refugium light 100% 24/7 and started dosing Chaeto Grow it has done really well. This one started as a golf-ball size lump from Algae Barn.

I guess I’m just “macro-curious”