Chaeto Tumbler
 

Any ideas for an active chaeto tumbler?

I was thinking about running a piece of 1/2 or 3/4 PVC the length of my chamber, drilling a few small holes pointed up and putting a small power head on one end.

Suggestions?

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I just put a small power head in my fuge, no additional piping.

does it tumble or just get pushed into a corner?

i don't even tumble mine. still grows bright green with no dead spots until it quickly fills my fuge which is 16x16. I actually let the starter ball get sucked to my tunze 6025 so it's anchored and it just expands from there.

If you want to truely tumble it, you will have to have a good sized cube, with nothing in it but the cheato. This way it dosn't get caught up in anything. I used an external pump plumbed into pvc returns with small holes drilled in it. I put one at the top of the aquarium and one on the other side on the bottom to create the rotational flow. Worked really well. But its a lot of work, and more suited to a remote fuge setup. If this is just in your sump with egg crate walls don't bother trying to tumble it.

I was also thinking of finding a short section of large diameter PVC pipe, cutting it into quarters and fixing the quarters in the corners.

I gotta do something, it isn't working as it is. the chaeto grows and floats to the surface, forcing itself above the water and thus dying.