Anyone Have “clean” Cheato

[Luke.]

As title says by clean I mean free of anything , (bristle worms . Flat worms , aptasa , vermit snails , etc etc ) if you have any in your tank it’ll be in the cheato most likely , lmk if you do or not.
Been looking at algae barn and they hav been out of stock for weeks now ..

 

[Seasquirt]

Gotta a question for you chaeto users, as our tanks use it to cut down on nitrate and phosphate i imagine does the chaeti get saturated with those two and do we have to remove it from our tanks or does it expell those nutrients on its own?

 

[Jason Bell]

The export method is manual removal of the cheato, it up takes nutrients to grow, you remove or harvest the growth removing those nutrients. I want to use some type of algae scrubber on the new tank as I won't have enough space for an effective refugium.

 

[Seasquirt]

I bought an ATS Its made by ice cap and sold at Reef Supplies.

I bought to help with high phosphates among other things and i too don't have the room for a proper fuge. You can make one pretty easy but it's the lighting thats hard to do.

Looking forward to setting it up on my new tank, after xmas

 

[Josh]

Piece of advice on the icecap ATS (i have 2) is to make sure when it leaks and trust me it will.... that it leaks back into the tank. I have mine straddling my sump in both my tanks and i would say at least once a month 1 of them starts leaking. They work amazing but getting them setup so they dont leak water is a bit of a pain in the ass i wont lie.