Chaeto not growin

[Madreefer]

I cant grow it either, but i like it that way. I've tried tumbling it and different lights and still nothing.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-01/sl/

[HaZRaTTy]

Take this for what its worth,

When I first added a ball of cheato to my refugium it didn't appear to be growing either but after 5-6 months it wouldn't stop it quickly tripled and took over the space in my refugium in no time. It grew so fast I couldn't give the stuff away fast enough.

Give it time, all I used was a 6500k bulb from HD

[Proteus]

I couldn't grow it either. It would disintegrate and litter my tank.
I know there are no measurable nutrients in my tank.

I do wonder though if macro algeas happen to give off benificial compounds to our tank inhabitants

[FWC]

My Chaeto grew like mad for the first several months, than just kind of stopped. It doesn't die out at all, but it doesn't grow either.

[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?

[FitoPharmer]

Originally Posted by Proteus

I do wonder though if macro algeas happen to give off benificial compounds to our tank inhabitants

The short answer is: YES!

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by FitoPharmer

The short answer is: YES!

Long answer: ?

[neoh]

I couldn't grow it either. Once I get a fuge LED bulb the stuff grows like wildfire.