New Nano Aquarium

[Lacrette1991]

My Aquarium has been cycled for a month now. I have one clown and shrimp as well as a small Xenia and Frogspawn.
After adding purple up in the aquarium I noticed a huge brown algae bloom.
I’m not over feeding and my parameters are
SG: 1.026
PH 8
Nirtites 0
Nitrates 0.
Temp 78°F

Ready to be flamed for not having a full CUC.

Other than adding some snails and hermits is there a way to slow down the process for now until my local store stocks up on CUC?

fish and shrimp seem to be happy and I’ve read brown algae is common and nothing to worry about right away yet others say it will kill your aquarium.

 

[Ron Reefman]

First, let me offer a welcome to Reef2Reef!

After a tank cycles, the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate process has started. Nitrate is a fertilizer for algae. And the brown stuff you are seeing is probably just a bloom of diatoms. This happens to almost every new tank. The algae blooms, consumes most of the food in the tank and then dies back to a manageable level. It may take anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks for the bloom to die back.

Keep the feeding to a minimum, blow the algae off the rocks with a turkey baster and off the glass with a glass scrapper, run some kind of filtration and do water changes. It isn't any water parameter like ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, Ca, alk or Mg that is the problem. But water changes will help remove the diatoms you have put in motion and will help reduce the level of food for the diatoms that are there.

New tanks cycle in 1 to 6 weeks. But blooms of algae and bacteria can happen until the tank matures which can be 3 to 12 months! Be patient and don't go adding any chemicals to try and cure the situation.

 

[Lacrette1991]

First, let me offer a welcome to Reef2Reef!

After a tank cycles, the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate process has started. Nitrate is a fertilizer for algae. And the brown stuff you are seeing is probably just a bloom of diatoms. This happens to almost every new tank. The algae blooms, consumes most of the food in the tank and then dies back to a manageable level. It may take anywhere from 2 to 4 weeks for the bloom to die back.

Keep the feeding to a minimum, blow the algae off the rocks with a turkey baster and off the glass with a glass scrapper, run some kind of filtration and do water changes. It isn't any water parameter like ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, Ca, alk or Mg that is the problem. But water changes will help remove the diatoms you have put in motion and will help reduce the level of food for the diatoms that are there.

New tanks cycle in 1 to 6 weeks. But blooms of algae and bacteria can happen until the tank matures which can be 3 to 12 months! Be patient and don't go adding any chemicals to try and cure the situation.

Thank you so much for the advice! I currently am running a HOB filter with filter cloth and Chemi-Pure.

I’ll stick to the water changes as well as the algae removal for now!

 

[glb]

Your tank looks totally normal. They’re never pretty in the beginning, but just hang in there and things will eventually settle down!