Chaeto...How much is too much?

[Phoneguy982]

I have some chaeto in my fuge and it is about 2" thick covering the whole surface. Will it stop growing or do I need to get rid of some?
How thick do some of you guys have yours?

[HippieSmell]

I jsut got my chaeto, so I can't say from experience, but I would say that as long as the chaeto isn't decaying from lack of light or flow then you should be ok.

[Phoneguy982]

I thought the same thing but why do people trim it and sell it? Maybe just for $$ perhaps. Maybe I'll try to post in another forum.

Thanks

[ub32965]

You want to trim your chaeto, because when you have growth, then the chaeto will filter out nutirents out of the water. Put it in simple terms: growth = nutirents being filtered out of the water and no growth = no nutirents being filtered out.

[HippieSmell]

Oh yeah, you definitely want to trim every once in a while, but as long as it's still growing and parts of it aren't decaying you should be fine. Do whatever you have to do in order to maximize growth.