Chaeto not growin

[IanWR]

I assume that even simple plants like chaeto still need a supply of nitrate and phosphate to grow. If one ran GFO, had a lot of good mature liverock, didn't feed heavily, etc I imagine you could end up in a situation where the plants were starved. Maybe they stopped growing because your phosphates and nitrates were very low? If thats the case, then yahoo! mission accomplished.

[GoFish]

Is your chaeto very deep below the surface of the water? Mine used to be 10" below the surface and it didn't grow for months until it floated to the surface one day, now it grows very quickly

[jason604]

Originally Posted by Vancity

Is your chaeto very deep below the surface of the water? Mine used to be 10" below the surface and it didn't grow for months until it floated to the surface one day, now it grows very quickly

My chaeto either most of the time floats or is about 2-3" below water surface. It litterly did not even grow 1cm since I bought it about 5 months ago lol. Still green as ever tho. I don't really check water parimeter much buy the last time I checked nitrate it was 15 because I expoxy some stuff in tank and my slimmer went nuts and overfilled and all the nasty stuff went right back into my system. This actually happened 2x lol then I did a water change a week after yes I know that's very bad lol. But all my coral and fish etc seem happy as ever. Next week I got some new LPS and did a revive dip and forgot to rinse it off b4 I it in tank and same thing happened to skimmer. My tank is normally 0-5ppm nitrate. How can there be litterly no growth in chaeto at all in this long period of time? Is chaeto not growing a bad thing?

[jason604]

Just did a nitrate test its at 20ppm lol damn. Gotta do water change now I guess =P. also why is high nitrate bad again? I don't see any coral dying or unhealthy I think.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Try a CFL 6500k phillips daylight bulb. This has always worked great for me. 13w or 27w is fine.

[jason604]

Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

Try a CFL 6500k phillips daylight bulb. This has always worked great for me. 13w or 27w is fine.

thanks i will try this =)