Refugium nastiness…. Stay or go?

[Stblindtiger]

So this has been growing in my refugium. Should I try and remove the nasty top layer and replace with clean chaeto?

 

[blaxsun]

Yeah! (or are you waiting for it to evolve into an intelligent life form and crawl out of your sump?)

 

[TnFishwater98]

So this has been growing in my refugium. Should I try and remove the nasty top layer and replace with clean chaeto?

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I run a net to collect every now and then

 

[Phil Steel]

better to be safe than sorry

 

[Tuan’s Reef]

Here's another point of view. Cleaning up my sump too clean was my mistake. Thriving system on top with nasty gunky filtration on the bottom. Worked great until i had to do somthing about it. It took months to rebuild the gunk and have a thriving ecosystem down in the sump. That green stuff was the stuff i removed and i regret.

 

[doubleshot00]

I clean out stuff from my refugium about every 2-3 months. Mostly bubble algae and GHA. Takes probably 20 minutes. I leave the stuff on the bottom just get the floating stuff.

 

[Stblindtiger]

I clean out stuff from my refugium about every 2-3 months. Mostly bubble algae and GHA. Takes probably 20 minutes. I leave the stuff on the bottom just get the floating stuff.

That is what I did. I just removed the floating nasty stuff, and I’m adding some new clean chaeto when I get home.

Thanks!