Hey folks,
I’ve been trying to start a refugium but I can’t keep chaeto alive. I was hoping someone could help me figure out what I’m doing wrong.
The tank is six months old and has quite a bit of hair algae growing in the display right now. I have to pull it from the rocks every week. My chaeto however won’t grow. Instead I get hair algae in the refugium and all over my chaeto as the chaeto slowly turns white and dissolves.
My nitrates are currently at 4 because I just did a water change but they usually get up to around 10 in between water changes. My phosphates are at 0.03
I don’t have a power head in the fuge so the only flow it’s getting is from the return pulling water through the sump.
I went with cheap Amazon grow lights. I currently have two Amazon “80 watt” LED clip on grow lights over it that are red/blue which I run at full power for 12 hours at night.
I can’t think of anything else I’m missing.
Any ideas?
I’ve been trying to start a refugium but I can’t keep chaeto alive. I was hoping someone could help me figure out what I’m doing wrong.
The tank is six months old and has quite a bit of hair algae growing in the display right now. I have to pull it from the rocks every week. My chaeto however won’t grow. Instead I get hair algae in the refugium and all over my chaeto as the chaeto slowly turns white and dissolves.
My nitrates are currently at 4 because I just did a water change but they usually get up to around 10 in between water changes. My phosphates are at 0.03
I don’t have a power head in the fuge so the only flow it’s getting is from the return pulling water through the sump.
I went with cheap Amazon grow lights. I currently have two Amazon “80 watt” LED clip on grow lights over it that are red/blue which I run at full power for 12 hours at night.
I can’t think of anything else I’m missing.
Any ideas?