Can I put Cheato in my sump?

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Here is my sump. I want to run some cheato for nutrient export and pods home. I see everyone that has cheato has it separated off. Why?

*its a bit dirty right now. The big hose on the left is to my UV

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Cheato grows in reef conditions. Water and Full spectrum lighting. Cheato breaks loose into pieces that can get sucked into a return and sent into your display and then it can grow in there where you don’t want it

Usually a refugium section has some kind of baffle with foam to catch loose pieces before they get into other sections of the sump
 
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Cheato grows in reef conditions. Water and Full spectrum lighting. Cheato breaks loose into pieces that can get sucked into a return and sent into your display and then it can grow in there where you don’t want it

Usually a refugium section has some kind of baffle with foam to catch loose pieces before they get into other sections of the sump
That makes sense.
 

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With some thought and modification you could probably get sowmthing small that works but, you won’t fit enough cheato to make a big impact on nutrient levels.

If you can settle for pod housing you can get a few pod hotels and toss them in the return section. I do believe pods can survive travel from a return pump back into a display, but with the skimmer they will just end up in the skimmate cup
 
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With some thought and modification you could probably get sowmthing small that works but, you won’t fit enough cheato to make a big impact on nutrient levels.

If you can settle for pod housing you can get a few pod hotels and toss them in the return section. I do believe pods can survive travel from a return pump back into a display, but with the skimmer they will just end up in the skimmate cup
better to wait then. Is what you’re saying?
 

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There must be witchcraft going on. I see no drain lines into the left filter socks and I see no lines out of the far right and I don’t understand what the far right section is
 
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