My BC29 and Chaeto.

[Convict2161]

This will be my 5th attempt at keeping chaeto alive in chamber 2 in the inTank media rack. I have the jbj LED light for the back but when I get the algae in the mail its nice course and softball size! After about a month in my tank it's mush and stinks!!! Reduced to what looks like mud.

Not gonna try it again. It's costing me 10 bucks plus shipping. Not worth it IMO.

 

[Convict2161]

Anyone? I don't wanna keep wasting money I it's not gonna grow.

Also with out the cheato do I need that sponge between 2 and 3? Some forums say if NOT running cheato you can toss the sponge.

 

[alink708]

I have it in my 14bc for about 8 months now...still on the original batch I got. It gets mushy up against the glass, but its actually some filimentous algae on the cheato... I just pull it out and cut that part off when I do my weekly water change. Then when I put it back in I kinda mix it up so a dif part is by the glass.
I still have my sponge in chamber 3 also.

 

[Convict2161]

I have it in my 14bc for about 8 months now...still on the original batch I got. It gets mushy up against the glass, but its actually some filimentous algae on the cheato... I just pull it out and cut that part off when I do my weekly water change. Then when I put it back in I kinda mix it up so a dif part is by the glass.
I still have my sponge in chamber 3 also.

It was literally reduced from a nice softball size healthy looking cheato to a small mushy mess of mud all bunched up on the bottom where as when I first got it would fill the bottom rack. It was all reduced to nothing!!! I've given up for now. Not sure why it's not lasting. It was growing for a few months then it was gone! The size of a quarter and just yuck!! Smelled and was brown and muddy.

I read on a nano forum and inTanks setup that of you don't have cheato and are running something like phosguard or chemi elite in the bottom rack you can remove the sponge from 2 into 3.

 

[alink708]

No too sure what the problem could be, im sure someone that knows alot more then myself will chime in eventually.
I read the same thing that you can remove it but to keep it if you have cheato to stop it from getting into the display

 

[Convict2161]

No too sure what the problem could be, im sure someone that knows alot more then myself will chime in eventually.
I read the same thing that you can remove it but to keep it if you have cheato to stop it from getting into the display

Yea I read the same...

 

[Convict2161]

It says of your not running algae you don't need the sponge.



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[Jmkb02]

Your phosphate and nitrate levels may just be to low. What else do you have in your tank?

 

[Kylarse]

Had the same issue in my bc29. Running the corallife fuge light that oceanic recommends for the hqi. I switched the 10k lamp for a 6500 lamp and the chaeto is growing great now. Keep the sponge if you are running chaeto, our you will foul your pump