My Chaetomorha is breaking apart

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  1. adam

    adam Montipora Digitata

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    I cleaned out the sump today and wiped out all the algae on the inside of the sump and it seems like the chaetomorpha is breaking apart now. I did have nitrates of 10 now for the past week the are under 5. I also shook and squeezed the chaetomorpha in the old water that I was throwing out. I guess I released all the nutrients that held it apart? I have a 26 watt CFL bulb on it for 16 hrs a day. The color is still bright green just breaking apart. I guess my tank is too clean. I do have a little hair algae inside of tank.
     
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  3. cosmo

    cosmo Giant Squid

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    no worries, what spectrum is your CFL bulb?
     
  4. adam

    adam Montipora Digitata

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    I think 6500K. I need it to clump together again or it might slowly just desintegrate and die. It was doing great and I trimmed some last week but I think the squeezeing of the algae to release the dirty water screwed it up.