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I went away for a long weekend and left my QT tank in the hands of my father, with some extra filtration in case he overfed (which, naturally, he did...ugh). My timer has been dead for a while, so I left the lights on 24/7, figuring that was better for the chaeto than leaving the lights completely off for five days and four nights.
I arrived home today to find that my chaeto (I had a tennisball-sized clump) has been completely shredded, filling my tank with green particles of macroalgae between 1/4 and 1/2 inch in size.
The QT tank is currently home to a 1-inch humu trigger (who seems to be missing), a 2-inch stars'n'stripes puffer, and a 1-inch damsel. What CUC that hasn't been decimated by the puffer includes about 5 different varieties of snails and 2 hermit crabs.
Anyone have any idea what could've caused this shredding of my chaeto? And, more importantly importantly, how the heck do I get all the particles out? They geting sucked up against the filter intakes, but most of them just stick to the surface instead of making it through the gaps, so the filters aren't doing diddly squat to remove it.
I arrived home today to find that my chaeto (I had a tennisball-sized clump) has been completely shredded, filling my tank with green particles of macroalgae between 1/4 and 1/2 inch in size.
The QT tank is currently home to a 1-inch humu trigger (who seems to be missing), a 2-inch stars'n'stripes puffer, and a 1-inch damsel. What CUC that hasn't been decimated by the puffer includes about 5 different varieties of snails and 2 hermit crabs.
Anyone have any idea what could've caused this shredding of my chaeto? And, more importantly importantly, how the heck do I get all the particles out? They geting sucked up against the filter intakes, but most of them just stick to the surface instead of making it through the gaps, so the filters aren't doing diddly squat to remove it.
