So my 32 gal biocube is slowly getting fully fitted. But I can't find clean chaeto anywhere!

[Powahfull]

Where does everyone get their clean chaeto from? I heard everyone tell me algae barn but I have looked every day now for a week and it's always sold out!

I been buying a 6oz bottle of pods every 2 weeks for my red scooter blenny (dragonet) I have never seen a pod get any big ones and the little guy is getting fat so it's working but expensive. Last week my intake media / refugium showed up but I don't want to take out the stock without the chaeto ready to add in. Already had an 11 inch in tank refugium light looks like a heater size so I'm ready to do another upgrade!

Are there any other alternatives to clean chaeto that are good for sustaining a pod population?

 

[Oldsman]

My lfs sells a softball size bundle that I started with, been trimming back every 3 weeks or so

 

[Powahfull]

All 3 local LFS don't carry it because they don't want to deal with the clean part of it so I'm going to have to purchase online.

 

[Dabcrusher]

Where does everyone get their clean chaeto from? I heard everyone tell me algae barn but I have looked every day now for a week and it's always sold out!

I been buying a 6oz bottle of pods every 2 weeks for my red scooter blenny (dragonet) I have never seen a pod get any big ones and the little guy is getting fat so it's working but expensive. Last week my intake media / refugium showed up but I don't want to take out the stock without the chaeto ready to add in. Already had an 11 inch in tank refugium light looks like a heater size so I'm ready to do another upgrade!

Are there any other alternatives to clean chaeto that are good for sustaining a pod population?

Ulva lactuca is really good. It has alot of surface area for the pods to lay eggs on. I don't know how well it will do in an all in one fuge though. If your flow is slow I would think lt would do good

 

[subzero]

I can send you a sandwich ziplock softball size for $50

 

[homer1475]

Never found pods to prefer macro algae over some nice holey rock to live in.

What I did find, is they absolutely love marine pure. I never saw as many pods living in my macro, a few, but not an over abundance. I had so many living in my marine pure brick, if I left the lights off in the sump and used a flashlight, the block actually looked like it was alive there were so many crawling all over it.

f it were me, other then the nutrient absorbing properties of macro, if I just wanted macro for a pod haven, I would throw a marine pure plate in the middle chamber of the biocube(I know it won't fit, but the stuff can literally be cut with a butter knife).

 

[Octane13]

You could always buy local and then "QT" yourself. I've done this a couple times with success. Just toss it in some fresh water and leave it for a week or so. I found that most of the sea life is dead within 24hrs. I tend to leave it at least a week as a precaution. The only "negative" is that you may get some other algae that survive.