Yes it's just running out of nutrients.
Yes divided cleaning works, although I might be easier to cut the screen in half and take out half at a time.
This picture was taken a few days ago, I didn't have time to post it until now.
I'm not really getting anything that I would call hair algae. The water parameters are good, so I'm not too worried about what is or is not growing on the screen. I didn't scrape the screen this week to see what it looks like if I let it grow out. I also trimmed ~1/2" off the bottom of the screen. It stuck out just a little bit off the bottom and would hang up on the filter floss when ever I tried to change it.
2 weeks is a bit much.
Weekly harvest.
According to my fish log, I added this cheato to my tank back on 4/3. I have never removed any of it.
Here it is today.
I find it very interesting that it in 5 months the cheato has not really grown at all. The friend I got the cheato from says he throws out 5x that much cheato every week in his tank/sump. Granted his tank is 5x the size of mine, and he has a different light, but I would think it would have grown way more than it has in 5 months. It makes me wonder how effective my scrubber is despite it not really growing hair algae. I built a scrubber for him a couple weeks ago. I'm curious to see how the cheato does in his tank once his scrubber gets established.
Yes your scrubber is over powering it.
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