Chaeto is turning white

[gasperagnes]

hello everyone,

I am a new reefer and I have a separate fuge connected to my system that is fairly new. I am trying to grow some chaeto but it is turning white. I have dosed it with chaeto grow, i use Neptune gro for lighting and have a small 8 watt power head for some flow. My nitrates are 10-20 but my phosphates are 0. Should I just take the chateo out of the fuge for now? i have thousands of pods in there. Can I run the fuge with out any microalgae growing in there?

 

[VAReefer1991]

hello everyone,

I am a new reefer and I have a separate fuge connected to my system that is fairly new. I am trying to grow some chaeto but it is turning white. I have dosed it with chaeto grow, i use Neptune gro for lighting and have a small 8 watt power head for some flow. My nitrates are 10-20 but my phosphates are 0. Should I just take the chateo out of the fuge for now? i have thousands of pods in there. Can I run the fuge with out any microalgae growing in there?

are you running any gfo?

 

[gasperagnes]

i am using seacham matrix

 

[Mattiejay6]

yup! Get rid of the Chaeto. It’s dying off. You need phosphates in your system. Yes you can have a fuge with no macro

 

[VAReefer1991]

i am using seacham matrix

How long have you had everything up and running? If your cheato is turning white it's definitely dying probably from no p04 you can take it out if you let it just sit and die it will release all the nutrients back into the water

 

[gasperagnes]

How long have you had everything up and running? If your cheato is turning white it's definitely dying probably from no p04 you can take it out if you let it just sit and die it will release all the nutrients back into the water

about six weeks.

 

[VAReefer1991]

about six weeks.

Yeah just take it out. When you start getting a raise in p04 you can look at some cheato again.

 

[gasperagnes]

Yeah just take it out. When you start getting a raise in p04 you can look at some cheato again.

ok will do. i see some hair algae forming in the fuge? should i be concerned?

 

[VAReefer1991]

ok will do. i see some hair algae forming in the fuge? should i be concerned?

I was always told if it's in the fuge and not the display you can certainly leave it but you can pull it out. Side note. I ditched cheato for sea lettuce imo it grows faster and I can feed it to my fish

 

[gasperagnes]

I was always told if it's in the fuge and not the display you can certainly leave it but you can pull it out. Side note. I ditched cheato for sea lettuce imo it grows faster and I can feeyou

 

[gasperagnes]

if i have a nutrient problem would the lettuce grow?