Algea mostly gone

[drakebuffie]

4 month old tank. Nitrates have measured high but not very concerned about it as 1 clown and my shrooms and monti seem to be doing fine.

The question I have is I had green algea to varying degrees all over the from glass and conch shells and rock work. To scrap it off the glass took a ton of scrubbing. I was out of town for a week and when I got back I was amazed that it had mostly all gone away. I can actually see the white and pink on the large conch shells now. Still a little bit of green algea but nothing like it was. I am now getting a brown algea on the glass mostly that just comes right off when wipped. This is new.

Is this just all part of the cycle for the newer tank? Forgot to add that I am getting small spots of hair algea but that is easily controled and does not seem to be growing wild.

 

[Timfish]

Every system is different and while teh various cycles that occur as a system matures and ages generally follow a typical sequence there will be differences from one ssytem to another. Keep doing water changes, testing especially alkalinity calcium and magnesium and stay on top of nuiscance algae removal.

 

[old salt reefer]

You need to change the title of this thread as at 4 months you are just seeing the begin of algae. In a couple of years you'll be able to says most of your algae is gone.

 

[drakebuffie]

You need to change the title of this thread as at 4 months you are just seeing the begin of algae. In a couple of years you'll be able to says most of your algae is gone.

Eh...not really. Was just trying to find out why the green algea that had been there for a couple months then in the course of a week it mostly disappeared and whats left is a very easily removed brown algea....possibly diatoms but I thought diatoms usually appeared much earlier.

 

[Cali Reef Life]

Get some cleanup crew keep up the maintenance and yes it normal to have phases of algae come and go.
My New tanks over a year old and I still have some algae it just doesn't grow long and see it as part of a reef tank. Its not even a bright green color. When your algae gets darker its weaker which is a good sign.

When your tanks fully stocked there is bacteria and other life forms(coral) competing for the resources po4 nitrate which keeps the algae down. Its possible well you were gone the tank was fed less which made nutrients drop, Also when your perimeters stable there is Coraline algae the pink stuff that out grows the hair algae and looks great.