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Cheato Cleaning??
I have noticed a lot of detritus building up in my cheato. Does anyone ever clean their cheato? If so how? Thanks Chris
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When I had a tank and was running cheato (great stuff, I might add!) I did my culling and leaning of cheato when I did my water changes. I kept the old water in a bucket, and simply vigorously shook out the cheato in this before I dumped the old water. That way you don't re-release all that poop in the tank.
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That is exactly what I'm going to START doing.
Brandon
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Don't you lose a lot of pods, worms, and starfish doing that?
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Hmmm... thats a pretty good point. I would think pods more than anything, tho.
I guess I may give it a try and just see what all comes out. Just catch back what I want to keep. Brandon
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Well yea, but everything's a trade off. You lose tons of pods, etc when you toss out a lump of cheato, too. I kept about 2" of 1-2" jagged rocks in an area of my fuge, and there were always PLENTY of pods to feed whatever was in my tank. Losing 2-3% by cleaning out my cheato didn't really bother me.
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When trimming my cheato... I pick out every single pod by hand.
Just kidding :O I do however try to pick out every micro serpent star and throw it back in my tank I started with like 5 stars that I got from fishdoc about 2 years ago. No telling how many I have now.... but its a bunch. I like those little things. And lord knows I have enough hair algae for them to live in! |
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