Adding chaeto after dosing Vibrant?
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scottedontknow
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Are you planning to continue to dose the vibrant? If so it will continue to to kill off your chaeto
rushbattle
Valuable Member
If one uses a bacterial based nutrient control system, it works really well! If you want a bed of macro algae to reduce nutrients, it can be touchy. I use a powerfilter and Vibrant. I have to dose phyto to raise P and I dose nitrates to maintain them at a reasonable level. I actually had to up my phyto additions because P was dropping so low. The only downside is that I don't get the O2 boost and CO2 reduction at night of the algae bed. But I am going to remedy that in the next system by building a huge frag tank, reverse light cycle. Then it's all gravy!
It killed off all my algae including my Chaeto. But that’s the price ya have to pay. I still ,in two spots, have this short brown hair algae that’s even tough to pull manually so and Vibrant can’t kill it. I’ll just live with it.
For me it's been roughly 1.5-2 months since dosing vibrant. I finally tried to add new chaeto and after a week it seems to have melted like a freshwater plant. I left it in hoping it will recover, but my last batch of chaeto didnt do this. Any ideas? Is my tank ruined for macro algea? Is there a way to fix this?
bull2k20
Community Member
When in doubt...water change !
Winstonv93
New Member
mine as well. the stuff does work. and if it didnt work. maybe the issue was too big for it to work. or what ive noticed is people buying the wrong bottle. they have marine, reef, and freshwater. ive read a lot of people buying the freshwater for a reef and nothing happens.
