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Basket to contain Chaeto growth

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Topic: Basket to contain Chaeto growth

Posted By: taylorjonl
Subject: Basket to contain Chaeto growth
Date Posted: October 06 2012 at 11:42pm

I am looking for something that can be used to contain the growth of some chaeto. I have a 100g stock container than is 2/3 full of live rock, I want to grow some chaeto in there but I don't want it getting all over the place. Any ideas?

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Posted By: napalm77
Date Posted: October 06 2012 at 11:46pm

Well from my experience you can only contain it so much as it follows flow. I tried bags/baskets/egg crate nothing worked it branched out so fast I couldn't keep up!! egg crate lined with cheese cloth worked the best however.

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Posted By: taylorjonl
Date Posted: October 07 2012 at 8:04pm

I ended up building an egg crate wall in the 100g sump, I plan on putting some screen that has holes big enough that the copepods can go between the chaeto and the rocks.

I don't really have to keep 100% of the chaeto in this section, just want to keep the mass from migrating to the back where the lights aren't shining.