Algae Bloom?
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Big G
captain dunsel
Welcome to R2R! New tank ugly stuff: diatoms. Harmless. They will go away all by themselves. Patience is the word of the week 
Diatoms feed on the silicates in your sand. Once they eat all the silicates, they go away. So as long as your sand bed is saltwater aquarium sand, you are in good shape. No worries. Cheers.
Diatoms feed on the silicates in your sand. Once they eat all the silicates, they go away. So as long as your sand bed is saltwater aquarium sand, you are in good shape. No worries. Cheers.
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ThanksWelcome to R2R! New tank ugly stuff: diatoms. Harmless. They will go away all by themselves. Patience is the word of the week
Diatoms feed on the silicates in your sand. Once they eat all the silicates, they go away. So as long as your sand bed is saltwater aquarium sand, you are in good shape. No worries. Cheers.
I would double down on what @Big G said and tell you Patience is the key word of the whole hobby. There are people who've been keeping reef tanks longer than I've been alive, and most of them still struggle with wanting to do/change too much, too fast.
There's a few saying I love to apply to reefing, some are from the hobby, others are not -- Here's my two favorites
"If you think you're reefing slow enough; SLOW DOWN" (Bass fishing saying)
"Only bad things happen quickly" (Reefs take years to mature and sometimes hours to die -- slow and steady)
My own personal saying I like to adhere to and stress on other
"One change per month" (It's very easy to want to make a bunch of changes at once. But corals are very slow to show change -- One week you try new lighting, next week you change the Alkalinity, next week you decide you have too much flow, next week oops! not enough flow... Then before you know it, you have NO IDEA what changes you made are making your corals happy/unhappy. By the third change the very first thing you did might start having an effect.)
There's a few saying I love to apply to reefing, some are from the hobby, others are not -- Here's my two favorites
"If you think you're reefing slow enough; SLOW DOWN" (Bass fishing saying)
"Only bad things happen quickly" (Reefs take years to mature and sometimes hours to die -- slow and steady)
My own personal saying I like to adhere to and stress on other
"One change per month" (It's very easy to want to make a bunch of changes at once. But corals are very slow to show change -- One week you try new lighting, next week you change the Alkalinity, next week you decide you have too much flow, next week oops! not enough flow... Then before you know it, you have NO IDEA what changes you made are making your corals happy/unhappy. By the third change the very first thing you did might start having an effect.)
Big G
captain dunsel
^^^^ Words of wisdom! Cheers!
mcarroll
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Make sure you let this ugly phase work itself out....don't compound it by adding any livestock (only a tiny amount of CUC at most), and don't try to fight it with (e.g.) water changes, GFO, carbon dosing, any treatment at all....nothing. 
