Rolling Cheato

Willow · #1 05-12-2005, 07:22 PM

my sump is basically a big fuge, i have a couple of different macros growing in there. they grow well and i have to thin them out all the time, my nitrates are zero so they must be working. the other day rob gave me a hunk of cheato and i just chucked it in there with everything else. i was looking at RC and people are going on about getting their cheato to roll in the sump. is it necessary for it to roll to be effective and grow? i just assumed that it would grow along with everything else in there.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #2 05-12-2005, 09:50 PM

Mine grew without rolling.

RonPeter · #3 05-13-2005, 03:10 AM

Mine is growing fine without rolling it.

vanreefer · #4 05-13-2005, 03:56 AM

don't you grow it then roll it?

AJ_77 · #5 05-13-2005, 04:23 AM

haha - roll it!

and dried button polyps are to be eaten like peyote!

doesn't chaeto just have to have flow thru it to prosper?

Willow · #6 05-13-2005, 04:31 AM

there must be something to the rolling as there are people obsessed about the rolling speed of cheato.

EmilyB · #7 05-13-2005, 05:58 AM

If all your algae jumped off the edge of the cliff, would you jump too

hockey nut · #8 05-13-2005, 07:03 AM

Rolling chaeto, LOL

That reminds me of a funniest home video of that dog.......... I'm pushing a rock , I'm pushing a rock......lol

I sure hope our friends to the south aren't smoking it.

I wonder if growing chaeto is illegal. Well if it is... I have some triple A cheato for sale.

Mine sits in some rock and has been growing nicely. Tripled in size in less than a month.

Rikko · #9 05-13-2005, 07:54 AM

Callum.. BUSTED! America's Funniest Home Videos... And that was the Bob Saget era, too. Ouch.

I guess their philosophy behind rolling the chaeto is to get maximum exposue of water borne detritus/crap through all parts of the chaeto, when the attached parts might not see as much... It seems pretty shaky to me. I'd bet money that if you just dropped a weight on top of it and left it in it's "roll tank" you wouldn't see much of a decline in growth.

Pushin' a rock pushin' a rock pushin' a rock pushin' a rock... Turn it around turn it around turn it around... Pushin' a rock pushin' a rock pushin' a rock....

hockey nut · #10 05-15-2005, 03:09 AM

Quote:

Callum.. BUSTED! America's Funniest Home Videos... And that was the Bob Saget era, too. Ouch

UH!.... I don't know what your talking about.... Bob who?....oh ya ..... I don't have a TV.