I cannot grow chaeto. Not only doesn't grow, but turns white after a little bit. I have it in a reactor i got about a week ago. Any ideas what's happening?
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Seems like a stupid question but, do you have excess nutrients? Also, who makes the reactor (skimms, diy, etc)
Are you using blue and white lights or red and blue lights? And what size pump do you have on it?
it could be amount of flow the lighting or even low nutrients in the tank , maybe?
2 things may be happening:
- lack of iron, iodine(iodide?) or other micro trace element. If you are dosing balling/2 part with trace elements daily you have those. Otherwise it may help dosing iron and iodine, which are both used quite fast in the reef tank.
- you are currently running gfo or other absorbent of phosphorus. Or your previous nutrient removal made an unbalance between nitrogen and phosphorus.
Exactly what happens to mine.Is it white or light green? Is it tightly curled or growing straight? I keep about two gallon bags worth of cheato in my fuge and it doubles every 14 days. the cheato closest to the light (top most) is VERY light green and very straight. The cheato on the bottom is tightly curled and dark green. I sometimes flip the pad over and again the top most lightens and straightens, the bottom (not lit) turns dark green and tightly curls.
I blast my cheato with two 36 watt grow lights.
Totally agree with you.Sounds like you have the right equipment working....my next suggestion would be to take the gfo offline. I am not sure what is in the coral colors program but bringing the phosphates online will def. help the cheato.
Exactly what happens to mine.
Is it white or light green? Is it tightly curled or growing straight? I keep about two gallon bags worth of cheato in my fuge and it doubles every 14 days. the cheato closest to the light (top most) is VERY light green and very straight. The cheato on the bottom is tightly curled and dark green. I sometimes flip the pad over and again the top most lightens and straightens, the bottom (not lit) turns dark green and tightly curls.
I blast my cheato with two 36 watt grow lights.
Sounds like you have the right equipment working....my next suggestion would be to take the gfo offline. I am not sure what is in the coral colors program but bringing the phosphates online will def. help the cheato.