So I cleaned my sand last night and I rinsed out my filter with the tank water of course. And the brown algae just came right back. I know it’s normal and it’s ok. But should I let everything go wild until it turns into green algae? It’s much browner then the pictures show.
How much brown Algae is too much?
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Billldg
My Gem Tang Is Watching You
That tank looks new, you will go thru the ugly stage, how long did you cycle tank, when I went thru the ugly hair algae stage I would just pull the rocks out that I could and brush off the algae and then I would comb the sand to get rid of the hair algae on the top.
It’s actually been cycled for 2months hence the fish. Parameters are all fine. I started with dry rock and I used dr Tim’s ammonia. And nothing ever showed until I got my fish and started feeding him with real food. Since I’ve got him it’s been a month now.
Billldg
My Gem Tang Is Watching You
How long are the lights on and how strong, the tank will go thru the ugly stage, don't think their is much you can do except manage it. I used GFO for a month and it killed every bit of algae I had left, but it also bottomed out my phosphates in which I am still trying to get back up, so I wouldn't recommend it now.
WVNed
The fish are staring at me with hungry eyes.
I see nothing in the tank that requires light except so you can see it. You could run them at 10% and do that. You have a sterile environment so everything will tend to overgrow to the limits of its food supply because nothing competes with it. It will stay that way unless you get stuff in there to compete with it.
jsker
Reefing is all about the adventure
I would suggest turning down you white spectrum to 49% with the current and the diatoms will dissipate
. Even though the system is two months old the system will go through different stages of cycling for 8 to 12 months. 
WVNed
The fish are staring at me with hungry eyes.
I have never started a tank in that manner. I always try to get as many things as I can on live rock. Pods, worms, sponges, filter feeders and all the other things. I go and buy the ugliest dirtiest most algae covered rock the LFS has and in a week it looks like all the other ones.
You are making a food chain in an enclosed environment. If you put yourself at the top of it you have to keep the lower things in balance yourself. There are people here that take their rocks out and scrub them clean. I don't want to do that so I balance it by adding things that eat the things that there are to much of.
You are making a food chain in an enclosed environment. If you put yourself at the top of it you have to keep the lower things in balance yourself. There are people here that take their rocks out and scrub them clean. I don't want to do that so I balance it by adding things that eat the things that there are to much of.
