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What kind of magnetic are you usingNew 90 gallon and I have one going!
What kind of magnetic are you using
I just got some off ebay from a guy in Ohio. Nice size, reasonable and clean. I did a BRS type RODI soak and got absolutely nothing off it.I have a refugium ready to go, just not running because I can't find chaeto
I never clean my sump. nothing somer than that.
I have and would be happy to give you some if you can pick up. Live in Long Island in New York.I have a refugium ready to go, just not running because I can't find chaeto
I had a cheap black box grow light that the chaeto hated but caulerpa loved. The caulerpa took over the chaeto shrank and when I switched lights the opposite happened. I have the brillo type of chaeto it apparently likes less intensity.I have tried a couple times with the cheato just eventually withering away. I think I just was not using the proper light. Used screw in coil plant bulb with no luck.
If there is a screw in bulb coil bulb that work let me know and I will try again.
Greybeard, this sounds absolutely ideal. Why do you think the hobby has gone away from this?Back in the day, a refugeum was aptly named... a refuge for creatures beneficial to your reef, outside of the display. We used to run sand, or mud, live rock, rubble, macro algae (Caulerpa of one type or another was more common then). Slow flow. We'd buy mysid, gammarus, various types of worms, live sand starters, etc. from places like Inland Aquatics, GARF, and IPSF. The idea was a wide variety of organisms. Biologic diversity. Heck, I used to use Xenia as nutrient export, after I'd had C. Racemosa go sexual and make a big mess.
Greybeard is spot on. There are 2 great articles in the forum written on this that everyone should check out!Pods? Most of what people are calling 'pods' today seem to be Gammarus shrimp, or scuds. Amphipods. They're large enough that people notice them. I've never seen a need to provide a refugeum for these critters... If you've got live rock, sand, and corals, they're almost like bristle worms... just _try_ and keep them out. Of course, a few wrasses will keep the population low, but rest assured, they're still there.
Copepods seem to be less recognized these days. Many reefers most assuredly still have copepods living and breeding in their tanks... I know there's a healthy population of several species in my tank, anyway, but they are seldom seen. With my eyes, I've got to have a magnifying glass and a flashlight to spot them.
Never had your problems at all. I feed quite a bit and regular. I have a skimmer return pump plus a pump supplying my ATS. I clean them once in a blue moon.I ran Triton for 18 months or so, which in essence is a large fuge and no socks as far as the sump goes. For my set up (barebottom) it absolutely required fairly frequent sump cleaning. Any and all equipment in the sump also got caked up with detritus much faster. I don't see a way around that...