How do you keep your Chaeto from getting nuisance algae growing on it?

[christwendt]

Heathy macro algae keep themselves clean. The GHA overgrowth seems to indicate that the Cheato is not doing well.

Yea I think it really took a hit initially. I’ll keep manually removing but may need to get a new ball.

 

[kamkam1999]

I’m having the same problem. I nearly killed my chaeto and I have one little piece left. I have fixed my elements that initially killed my chaeto ( way to much rox carbon) but the GHA keeps out competing my chaeto. What can I do ?

for my situation, it will happened when i have more Po4 than No3 and have many Organic. What i will do, is dosing No3 if No3<Po4. such as 0 vs 0.06, 5 vs 0.5 and adding double than the suggested carbon.

When you see your chaeto not growing/ become white, you should dosing N/ feed more fish and clean the algae on the main tank