chateo growth

[leaffish75]

my chateo isnt growing nor is it dying any more. I took out all the calupera except on or two very small (only 2 blades) pieces. the cheato just doesnt seem to grow. Im using a clamp on compact flourescent bulbs. (came with my mini betta setup) i bielive is a 7200K bulb. I use Res Sea Ca+ 3 in my tank. any advice?

[Zack]

I have found that cheto is a very slow grower if you are use to calurpa like myself who harvest it weekly. What is the cheato in and how many watts is the bulb any ideas?

[leaffish75]

its in my HOB refugium. ill see how many watts tonight.

[icereefer]

I'm running a 18 watt 7200k on my refuge, and I have chaeto and racemosa and I have to prune mine once a week, mine took about a month ,,,not much growth.. then after that it took off . I run my light 24/7 too. and my refuge is only 12" deep. and I feed my refuge. my chaeto grows faster then any thing in my tank since I went 24/7.
icereefer

[leaffish75]

what do you feed it? I really dont feed my tank or corals. Once a wk I add frozen brine and some tropical flakes to keep my ghost shrimp alive.

[cich1]

i have my cheato in a 10g with a 36w 50/50 bulb on a 12 hour light cycle and i have to pull a handful out everyweek my racemosa is starting to take off too so i'll need to trim it a bit this weekend

[Survey 1]

I also use cheato (brillo) algea and nothing else and mine took a little longer than a month to really get going. I found what works well for me is to let it grow nice and large (larger the better) and sqeeze a hand full off each week. ( make shure to shake out all those pods). I also light 24/7 with 2 150 pc screw in flood lamps from Home depot. also if your nitrates and such are low already, your plants wont have anything to feed on.