Chaeto Turned in to Snot

Ezreal

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I have had a wondeful ball of chaeto in my mini fuge that grew so well I had to split it and dump it every other week.

However one day the water in the fuge fell low because of a filter sock clog and the algae turned lime green and started creating gooey snot around it. I threw 95% of it out and kept the one dark green little chunk left and hoping it will regrow nicely.

But what happened? Why did the air exposure cause it to turn in to a tissue after a bad cold or... ya know.
 

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Air did it. It like other algae has little pockets of cells. Cells have water in them and when exposed to air, the cell membrane breaks and start to decompose.
 

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