DIY chaeto HOB

[JessKaye]

Has anyone made their own HOB chaeto refugium? I’m running a freshwater-converted 200L tank with a canister and looking for more nitrate export. (Will hopefully one day upgrade to sumped system but we I don’t quite have the funds for this yet). Cheers!

 

[mcarroll]

If possible I would try not to have that to worry about...that way you can focus more on tank fundamentls (vs filtration maintenance).

Can you do more to decrease nutrients held within the system? Canister filters don't usually get cleaned very often so they can become unwanted nitrate sources. If you're doing mechanical filtration with it, this is almost certainly happening.

Does the tank have a full compliment of live rock? Are you running a protein skimmer? Do you have anything else in place for cleaning/filtering the tank?