How Much Chaeto Are You Harvesting?

[Tonyscoots84]

Here's a video of mine, I have to chop it out once a month, about the size of a basketball
http://youtu.be/72LCm9HEuxk

lmao you are crazy..... :Blurp:

i gotta get mine to tumble like that :biggrin:

 

[oh207]

Here's a video of mine, I have to chop it out once a month, about the size of a basketball
http://youtu.be/72LCm9HEuxk

That's so cool!

 

[lnevo]

Thats crazy. A bet a mini maxspect gyre would get a tumble like that easily. How do you keep it in a perfect sphere like that. Mine's grows like a mat and rarely tumbles. I turn it once in a while.

 

[mbg75]

The tumble is what keeps it round and lit evenly

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

A green meatball is what that is

 

[Jaftica]

The cheato area of the sump has a spray bar in it powered from the return pump

 

[evoIX_Reefer]

**I wouldn't over harvest. I probably had over a 5gallon bucket full of chaeto and removed slightly less than half. I figured more room for growth and to get more light penetrating over all the chaeto and it seems like that may have added on to my algae woos.

Besides that, I changed my lights that contained 5month old T5 bulbs and dosing live phyto once/twice a week (only about 2 capfuls) that could be adding onto the algae but prior to that no issues.

I love when you try to fix something or think your doing it for "good reasons" it could have mixed up your chemistry.