Chaeto floating to the surface.

[Biglurr54]

I'm having an issue with my chaeto. It floats to the surface and grows there. It doesn't grow down. My fuge is deeper than wide. The air bubble from my overflow get caught under the algae and pushes it out of the water.

Anything I can do to fix this.

 

[lbacha]

Under a good light cheato is going to float. As the algae photosynthesizes it creates oxygen bubbles that make it float.

 

[Biglurr54]

Any way to combat that and keep it down. It grows into a thick mat about 1 1/2 inches thick in a week. I would rather a large ball.

 

[Ocelaris]

Water movement may help to rotate it. Try a small powerhead. Mine sinks and I wish it would float so it would be closer to the light!

 

[Katrina71]

Use a Nori clip

 

[mcarroll]

I would just thin it out when it gets to a certain point. Getting it to spin or do anything specific may not be worth the bother since you ultimately still have to get in there an thin it out. Plus, I'm not sure a whole lot more would grow as a ball anyway....the bigger it gets the more it will snag on everything in that tank – which isn't too big. As it is, the chaeto-mat appears to be filling every square inch of the top to a depth of at least a few inches. That's not bad at all!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Mine is all at the top.

 

[Cory]

Small rock on top of it. Or tie it down with some plastic wire.

 

[landlubber]

my sump doesn't have dedicated space for a refugium so i use my 6"x13" inlet chamber of my sump to grow chaeto and it works fine. keep as much of it submerged as possible and rotate it every few days you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[TroyMease]

the 1.25 inlet to my sump knocked the Cheato apart (dual chamber only Eshopps RS 100) and it got sucked into the skimmer intake to clog the pinwheel impeller... so I hung a HOB refugium on the side of it with a FugeRay light over it. My Cheato floats from the O2 it releases. Git er done! lol