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Message: <blockquote data-quote="srobertb" data-source="post: 11132679" data-attributes="member: 177800"><p>My 2 cents is that it’s probably too much and one algae source will outcompete the other and you’ll see degradation or melting in one.  I’m not a fan of ATS’s (cost and cleaning) but after a lot of reading a while back, they do in fact </p><p>Outcompete Chaeto.  I still run with Chaeto and no ATS because maintenance is less and I think a refugium at a big enough size can offer a lot of benefits and effectively do the same thing as the ATS if you have the room. </p><p></p><p>I don’t run caulerpa because once it escapes, it escapes forever.  I also hear if you play Rihanna too close to the tank it will go sexual and spread everywhere.  That being said, I think it looks better when planted vs a big ball of floating chaeto. </p><p></p><p>I ran miracle mud for about 2 weeks before I got tired of the soupy mess.  The only thing worse about the little silt storms was cleaning it out of my sump.  I don’t recall what’s in it but nowadays I don’t put things in my tank that “contain or may contain nutrients and minerals” in my tank.  I like to be able to quantify and monitor things on my display.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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