A little update on my display refugium, its been 4 months now and i discovered that low flow is not a good idea, high flow is needed to avoid hair algea and other pest build ups, but that high parameter like calcium keeps these down. in fact i never had cyanos since my calcium hit above 450 mark. I red that high calcium deter cyano formation in tanks.
Another fact is that most Macroalgaes like high calcium because they use it a lot. One algae that i found was the Gracilaria family to be exact. They're the ones who grew the most with that parameters.
For Phosphate my Ulva just exploded quadruple in just 4 days .
Caulerpa and cheatos feast on Nitrates of course, thats not to say that no algae don't consume a bit of everything but each seems to relish one above the other. An thats what i'm finding out with my refugium experiment.
I supplement iron, manganese , iodine which is important to specially the red algae, i saw one of my red algae just melt away literally in front of me in 3 days becomming totally transparent and disintegrate. The seller told me the lack of iodine was my problem and sent me another bacth. Since i dose it no problem .
So before doing a refugium with multiple species other than cheatos and caulerpas ; do research i lost only 3 species luckely i was able to salvage my collection of 26 species. Which now i can sell to other and recoop my $300 original investment lol.
I leave on side panel to the pods to feed on, no one sees that side anyway, i made a little window to take a shot inside.
The pods have a better chance of survival and growth if they have grazing grounds
The refugium is feeding my main tank by gravity
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