Calcium & cheato
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michaeltx
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do you have alkalinity and magnesium tests? both of these will effect calcium levels.
as far as why the calupera isnt growing if you dont have a large bioload or excess butrients it wont grow as fast it will only use whats available.
Mike
sorry I meant to say cheato not calupera LOL
as far as why the calupera isnt growing if you dont have a large bioload or excess butrients it wont grow as fast it will only use whats available.
Mike
sorry I meant to say cheato not calupera LOL
1journeyman
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My Chaeto wouldn't grow at all until I moved the aquarium and set up a refugium. Now it's got strong water flow and a 150wt HQI on it 12 hours a day and it's growing like a radioactive monster. Not sure if it needed more light, more flow, or both but all I changed was lighting and flow and I got a huge response.
mikeyjer
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Originally Posted by 1journeyman
My Chaeto wouldn't grow at all until I moved the aquarium and set up a refugium. Now it's got strong water flow and a 150wt HQI on it 12 hours a day and it's growing like a radioactive monster. Not sure if it needed more light, more flow, or both but all I changed was lighting and flow and I got a huge response.
I can't believe they like such strong lighting?? I went down instead of up on my lighting, I had the Chaeto going for over a year on 10,000k PC. The Chaeto NEVER gotten any bigger then when I got it from a friend until I change the lighting to 6500k 10w bulb. Now it's growing like mad, grew double it's size in less then a month..... :happyfish
My Chaeto wouldn't grow at all until I moved the aquarium and set up a refugium. Now it's got strong water flow and a 150wt HQI on it 12 hours a day and it's growing like a radioactive monster. Not sure if it needed more light, more flow, or both but all I changed was lighting and flow and I got a huge response.
I can't believe they like such strong lighting?? I went down instead of up on my lighting, I had the Chaeto going for over a year on 10,000k PC. The Chaeto NEVER gotten any bigger then when I got it from a friend until I change the lighting to 6500k 10w bulb. Now it's growing like mad, grew double it's size in less then a month..... :happyfish
1journeyman
Active Member
Originally Posted by Mikeyjer
I can't believe they like such strong lighting?? I went down instead of up on my lighting, I had the Chaeto going for over a year on 10,000k PC. The Chaeto NEVER gotten any bigger then when I got it from a friend until I change the lighting to 6500k 10w bulb. Now it's growing like mad, grew double it's size in less then a month..... :happyfish
I was surprised too. I originally set up the HQI in the sump just until I got around to buying some pcs for it. It started growing immediately though so I left it. The light is literally 5 inches from the Chaeto.
I can't believe they like such strong lighting?? I went down instead of up on my lighting, I had the Chaeto going for over a year on 10,000k PC. The Chaeto NEVER gotten any bigger then when I got it from a friend until I change the lighting to 6500k 10w bulb. Now it's growing like mad, grew double it's size in less then a month..... :happyfish
I was surprised too. I originally set up the HQI in the sump just until I got around to buying some pcs for it. It started growing immediately though so I left it. The light is literally 5 inches from the Chaeto.