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When I first started I thought I could keep everything under control with just chaeto. Then I basically got GHA and still haven't gotten rid of it! Though keep in mind this is a 0 water change system. That said, I'm always looking for nutrient export methods!
What eventually happened is that the chaeto got a lot of GHA on and in it, also it got cold once when my overflow stopped working. Either way, it died. But now I have a nice skimmer instead. I also have 2 "bio-block" marine pure type blocks. Only counts as nutrient export if it's actually denitrifying I guess! Also I have situated some knitting canvas under my nice bright light I got for the chaeto in the hopes of growing some algae sort of like a algae scrubber. It's definitely growing some algae but I haven't "roughed it up" since honestly I just don't have the right tools for that. Or maybe I do somewhere but I'm not aware of it.
Anyways the knitting canvases are just a little something for the meantime and a little experiment to see if you can just put knitting canvas under a light and call it an algae scrubber. (Huge if true!) But soon I'll have 10 mangrove propagules. And no idea what I'm gonna do with them when I get them! Do the tops have to be out of the water? If so I could probably figure something out.
Is there anybody out there with experience on how much nutrients mangroves can export? My idea is at least they won't have the hair algae problem like with chaeto. But I get the impression they uptake nutrients a bit slower. Still, I find chaeto to be a bit too fussy for my liking. And maybe not the best for ultra-high nutrient systems since GHA will just outcompete it right on top of it.
Also after I try the skimmer + the mangroves...and then probably the skimmer + even more mangroves, lol....Where do I go from there? Algae scrubbers? I want to do this naturally without something like GFO or carbon.
What eventually happened is that the chaeto got a lot of GHA on and in it, also it got cold once when my overflow stopped working. Either way, it died. But now I have a nice skimmer instead. I also have 2 "bio-block" marine pure type blocks. Only counts as nutrient export if it's actually denitrifying I guess! Also I have situated some knitting canvas under my nice bright light I got for the chaeto in the hopes of growing some algae sort of like a algae scrubber. It's definitely growing some algae but I haven't "roughed it up" since honestly I just don't have the right tools for that. Or maybe I do somewhere but I'm not aware of it.
Anyways the knitting canvases are just a little something for the meantime and a little experiment to see if you can just put knitting canvas under a light and call it an algae scrubber. (Huge if true!) But soon I'll have 10 mangrove propagules. And no idea what I'm gonna do with them when I get them! Do the tops have to be out of the water? If so I could probably figure something out.
Is there anybody out there with experience on how much nutrients mangroves can export? My idea is at least they won't have the hair algae problem like with chaeto. But I get the impression they uptake nutrients a bit slower. Still, I find chaeto to be a bit too fussy for my liking. And maybe not the best for ultra-high nutrient systems since GHA will just outcompete it right on top of it.
Also after I try the skimmer + the mangroves...and then probably the skimmer + even more mangroves, lol....Where do I go from there? Algae scrubbers? I want to do this naturally without something like GFO or carbon.