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Need some help here many thanks in advance!
My three month old 13.5 tank got those brown algae only on sand bed over the last two days. I’m not sure if it’s diatom or Dino tho. The changes are I added like 10 more new frags last Friday and changed water, vacuum sand bed on Saturday. Also cleaned the cheato in saltwater and trimmed half away.
NO3 is 6 PO4 is 0.08, KH 8.5. They were kind of stable, I dose all for reef every day.
I got hit by diatom after one and half month so I thought I’m done with the ugly phase.
Most of the corals are fine so far except the bird nest polyps is shrinking a little bit and hammer and torch seems smaller.
Is another water change necessary?
Will provide as much information as possible.

My three month old 13.5 tank got those brown algae only on sand bed over the last two days. I’m not sure if it’s diatom or Dino tho. The changes are I added like 10 more new frags last Friday and changed water, vacuum sand bed on Saturday. Also cleaned the cheato in saltwater and trimmed half away.
NO3 is 6 PO4 is 0.08, KH 8.5. They were kind of stable, I dose all for reef every day.
I got hit by diatom after one and half month so I thought I’m done with the ugly phase.
Most of the corals are fine so far except the bird nest polyps is shrinking a little bit and hammer and torch seems smaller.
Is another water change necessary?
Will provide as much information as possible.



