If you let your Chaeto grow so big that it takes away all your nuisance Algae- You...

...might be a Redneck!

J/K

But really,
I"ve noticed that when I let my mass of Chaeto grow real large (and not give and/or trade to the lfs too much or too often),
that my coral look better,

And my nuisnace Algae dissappears! The sump stays cleaner also.

I"m keeping a big mass from now on I tell ya

 

Ok, so no one thought that was funny I guess.
I for one don't mind calling myself a redneck sometimes.
Even Rednecks can be logical, caring and kind.

 

I laughed and will now consider letting mine get fatter and happier before the ol haircut

 

Todd, you remember giving me a quart size bag of cheato this summer? Well, here it is today!

 

Yup, same here.

 

I have a 24 x 24 x 20 place in my refugium filled with cheato and another algae, I rip lumps off throw the in the DT, the boys and girls love it, I tend to do this once every 2 weeks and miss a meal on this day

 

that's was pretty funny Todd. Had me laughing. You remind me of one of my buddies down in Georgia that would say something like that. before I had the biopellets running in my tank. I experienced the same. when I let me macro grow out like crazy in the sump, everything seemed to perk up more in the display. I guess there's no such thing as overkill in filtration.

 

That's great Matt!

My anedoctal evidence is:
that when my chaeto mass gets really large, my corals get a growth spurt, algae/cyano decrease and/or disappear, fish look as good or better, etc. That's when my big 3 stay stable too.

 

It's of course actually borrowed from an old Jeff Foxworthy line up of his jokes, 'You might be a Redneck if......'

One of my favorites is:
If you go to family reunions to pick up girls....You might be a redneck!
and/or
If your most wealthy relative gets a new house, and they call you up to help them take the wheels off of it.....You might be a Redneck!

And, IMHO, the chaeto helps with export- mainly of Phos and Nitrate,
not so much filtration.

 

lmao