Kamedaki Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Hi all, my name is Matt, and I love aquariums! I’ve always had freshwater tanks growing up and recently acquired a 75g tank for a saltwater setup. Quickly learned that a sump was the best way to go and built a 20g one to help control the big tank. I then got a 24g tank to use as a refugium and would love to put some algae or plants in it. If anyone has advise on what algae to start with for the refuge/sump or if there is a good local place to purchase from please let me know! Thanks all for the wonderful forums and any advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bler Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Hi there Matt!! Welcome to the hobby Good and popular fuge algae is chaetomorpha http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-01/sl/ has some info on it.. people usually give/trade/sell some macro when they need to 'harvest' sometimes you can find it at a LFS. I purchased a bunch of calurpa algae and sorted through it, pulled out a few strands of chaeto and fauchea to isolate and 'planted' the rest. I'll eventually cull out some of the calurpa after the chaeto and fauchea take hold 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamedaki Posted July 24, 2020 Author Share Posted July 24, 2020 Thank you bler for the reading material! It’s much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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