chaeto dieing off

salt life

Active Member
the past week my chaeto has been dieing off, it was growing great for as long as i can remember then it has been "disintergrating", i read somewhere that said if you keep your fuge light on 24/7, after a while the chaeto will start to do this. true/ false? I put my fuge on the timer with my other lights so it's on during the day then turns off with the rest of them. I know reverse would be better but i couldn't find the timer that i have now at HD when i went and all the others were 30+ so i skipped on that.
advice?
 

drtito

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Originally Posted by Salt Life
http:///forum/post/3123468
the past week my chaeto has been dieing off, it was growing great for as long as i can remember then it has been "disintergrating", i read somewhere that said if you keep your fuge light on 24/7, after a while the chaeto will start to do this. true/ false? I put my fuge on the timer with my other lights so it's on during the day then turns off with the rest of them. I know reverse would be better but i couldn't find the timer that i have now at HD when i went and all the others were 30+ so i skipped on that.
advice?
I belive that your nitrAtes have bottemed out, cheato consumes it to grow. As for the light being on 24/7 in the fuge that is to keep bad algae from going asexual. Your timmer thinking is RIGHT so do that.
 

salt life

Active Member
Originally Posted by DrTITO
http:///forum/post/3123602
I belive that your nitrAtes have bottemed out, cheato consumes it to grow. As for the light being on 24/7 in the fuge that is to keep bad algae from going asexual. Your timmer thinking is RIGHT so do that.

yeah idk if the nitrates have gone down, they were up at ike 180ppm last time i checked which was a couple weeks ago, but i will keep the fuge light on the timer and see if that helps. maybe it needs "rest" time?
 

crypt keeper

Active Member
Originally Posted by Salt Life
http:///forum/post/3123616
i was gonna after it filled up the sump but it started falling apart on me.
trim it. It will grow in better. I have cheato in my dt. It has grown like a weed. I have the lights on 8 to 9 hours a day though. Maybe 24 isnt so good. I know people do it
 

salt life

Active Member
Originally Posted by crypt keeper
http:///forum/post/3123632
trim it. It will grow in better. I have cheato in my dt. It has grown like a weed. I have the lights on 8 to 9 hours a day though. Maybe 24 isnt so good. I know people do it
well there ain't much left to trim down, alot of it dissapeared. i will try the light schedule for a little bit and see if that has any effect.
you mind checkin out my drain noise thread if you have a chance? when one thing goes wrong, another thing alwayssss follows.

thanks bro.
 

loopy101

Member
another reason why people do reverse lighting is it helps stabalize the ph levels. for the same reason they say not to test ph in the morning when the lights first come on
 
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