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Where did you buy this species of Chaetomorpha? Hi Mustafa - thanks for the reply! Actually, we bought everything from the petshrimp store. Everything from the salt, to the substrate, rocks, chaeto, moss ball, shrimp, etc. It would have been sometime around January 2021, I think? I could look up th...

Just don't stick the grow light adjacent to the tank and don't leave it on all the time -- at a rough guess I'd say keep it at least 6 ft away, and turn it off at bedtime. Are you sure your salinity is okay? Is it the same as when the chaeto was flourishing? I just checked the salinity for the firs...

With so few shrimp to cycle nutrients to the algae, you may be right. But if there are MTS in there, they should provide nutrients. Normally if the available nutrients are low the chaeto stabilizes at a smaller size but stays deep green. The OP notes that the tank was okay until it was moved to a r...

Tiny Ocean wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:16 pm Judging by how pale the alga is, it is definitely not getting enough light. Try moving it about 2 to 3 feet from a good window for a month and see how it performs.

Thank you for the input @Tiny Ocean. I'll see what we can do!

Hi all, My daughter and I started a shrimp tank for her birthday several years ago and it's been doing great - but we moved to a new apartment in August, and just noticed today that much of the macroalgae seems to have died off since the move. There's probably about 1/4th the amount that there was a...