Chaeto dying please help

[noobreefer2]

Hi, I have a 75 gallon tank with a r-100 sump with a skimmer and refugium a little more that a week ago I purchased a tennis ball sized piece of chaeto from algae barn and some phyto I already had pods from a local dealer in my tank and I wanted to feed them with the phyto. When the chaeto came I put in my tank and left the light off for a day and turned it on at night witch it is on for 10 hours. I also am dosing chetogro twice a week. When I tested nitrates a few days after they were 10, and the salifert test kit made my phosphate look low but I couldn't really read it that well. The macro algae was looking fine until diatom started to grow in the refugium. when I got the cheto it was very brittle and a bunch of pieces where falling down on the bottom so I removed them. The cheto started bleaching and was getting very brittle I thought my light was to powerful so I put a piece of paper over it. since then the cheto has been bleaching more and the diatoms are getting worse, please help.

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[fish farmer]

Are those current pictures?

It still looks deep green with a little bit of bleaching, give it some time to come around and get used to your parameters. You may not have enough nutrients to keep it going.

 

[noobreefer2]

Those are current but the camera isn't the best and it looks like there is less bleaching. Thanks

 

[teller]

Did you do regular water changes? Before the chaetoGrow dosing?
I would say your boron and potassium may be quite low.
ChaetoGrow is for daily/ weekly replenishing of some trace elements assuming these elements are in "healthy ranges".
I had this happening to me some time ago when I was not doing any water change.
Today I am doing 5% water change/week and dosing aquavitro fuel (I do not have access to ChaetoGrow), for boron, manganese, zinc, molybdenum, etc.

 

[noobreefer2]

I do 10% water changes every other week with instant ocean basic salt I will be switching over to tropic marin pro soon, thanks for the info

 

[noobreefer2]

bump

 

[vetteguy53081]

According to pics. . .. looks healthy.
Do assure there is some flowin the area it is in and occasionally add Iron to the water as chaeto need light and iron

 

[noobreefer2]

I dose chetogro twice a week to maintain trace elements for chaeto (It contains iron) the camera isn't the best but there are small splotches of bleached chaeto on it, thanks.

 

[noobreefer2]

I think the problem was there wasn't enough flow going through the chaeto I fluffed it up and spread it out more it's doing better now, thank you for your help.