I can never seem to keep cheato alive for the life of me. This time I have a reef breeders pico light over a maybe 1 galling fudge in the back of an AIO. I got a ball of cheato that tumbled well and looked healthy when I got it. But it just slowly became more strongly and loose and fell apart. It’s almost all gone now and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. The light runs for 20 hours a day since it isn’t super high powered. I feed a cube of mysis and a cube of brine shrimp each day. It’s in a 40 gallon and last time I tested I had 0.09 phosphate and around 5 nitrate. I have some cyano and a little hair algae in the main tank I’m trying to combat at the moment. Any ideas on why my cheato keeps dying?
Cheato falling apart, not growing
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DesertCitiesReefer
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You might not have enough minerals for the cheato to grow.
DesertCitiesReefer
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Always good to do an ICP test to see where your trace and minor minerals are at. I also use Brightwell Aquatics ChaetoGro. But the ICP gets is the way to go so your not dosing things you don’t need or overdosing elements.
