Are these diatoms?

[ReefNoobs]

Hello fellow reefers! Brand new to reefing here and my tanks finished cycling roughly three weeks now. Came home today and saw my tank looking like this and just curious if these are diatoms? Been doing weekly 20% water changes and ensuring my parameters are good.

Any suggestions on correcting this? I completely expected to see these so it is no shock, but I am also not very sure on how to correct the issue. Really appreciate all your help.

 

[FellowSclownfish20270]

Diatoms mainly look like brown spots or splatters on rocks, sand, and glass. But i cant quite catch the color of the stuff on the sand. Let me know if the stuff on the sand is either brownish or greenish when the lights are on because it's kind of 50/50 on both colors. Although the first phase of a new tank will be brown diatoms then algae. Right now I'm going through the diatom phase and they don't look like the exact color to what your sand has because of the lighting.

 

[crazyfishmom]

Hello fellow reefers! Brand new to reefing here and my tanks finished cycling roughly three weeks now. Came home today and saw my tank looking like this and just curious if these are diatoms? Been doing weekly 20% water changes and ensuring my parameters are good.

Any suggestions on correcting this? I completely expected to see these so it is no shock, but I am also not very sure on how to correct the issue. Really appreciate all your help.

Are there small bubbles on your rock work? I feel like I see some. If so, it may be dinos.

In my opinion just keep doing what you’re doing and in a couple of weeks they’ll go away. Just part of the maturation process.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Hello fellow reefers! Brand new to reefing here and my tanks finished cycling roughly three weeks now. Came home today and saw my tank looking like this and just curious if these are diatoms? Been doing weekly 20% water changes and ensuring my parameters are good.

Any suggestions on correcting this? I completely expected to see these so it is no shock, but I am also not very sure on how to correct the issue. Really appreciate all your help.

Diatoms or other early algae. There is nothing to be done besides adding some cuc. It will get worse before it gets better. Welcome to the ugly stage

 

[Provate]

Hello fellow reefers! Brand new to reefing here and my tanks finished cycling roughly three weeks now. Came home today and saw my tank looking like this and just curious if these are diatoms? Been doing weekly 20% water changes and ensuring my parameters are good.

Any suggestions on correcting this? I completely expected to see these so it is no shock, but I am also not very sure on how to correct the issue. Really appreciate all your help.

Those are diatoms

 

[ReefNoobs]

Awesome. Thank you all so much for helping. Hoping you can help me with this these recent updates I have. So my nitrates were at around 2-3ppm prior to the ugly stage. Checked them today and they are reading zero and my ammonia levels are at .2ppm. Did a 20% water change yesterday. Is this also normal when algae shows up or should I be taking steps to combat this? Thank you for the help!

 

[Liftoff]

How did this turn out in the end?

 

[ReefNoobs]

How did this turn out in the end?

The tank has been coming a long so well it seems! Added a blenny who has been going to town on algae and I also just added a diamond goby yesterday. As you can probably see in the photo, he's been kicking up sand as he is currently making his burrow.