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autopilot
Guest
I have brown alage on my tank glass, rocks, and sand. What would be good to control it?
aaron childs
Member
Those would be diatoms that are good and perfectly normal, and will diminish on their own after alittle while.
For now, a clean up crew would do, depending on the size of your tank. Some turbo snails, a small conch, and some scarlet hermits would do alright. A sand sifter would also do okay, but they also eat beneifical things in the tank.
HTH
For now, a clean up crew would do, depending on the size of your tank. Some turbo snails, a small conch, and some scarlet hermits would do alright. A sand sifter would also do okay, but they also eat beneifical things in the tank.
HTH
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crm13
Guest
Those are all excellent ways of helping to control the brown algae; so I will just add to the list and say that making sure that your not feeding excessively will help as well. Decaying excess food will help create nutrients in the form of nitrates and phosphates that basically fuel the growth of diatoms.
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autopilot
Guest
I got a diamond goby and he has done an awesome job and shifting around my sand and cleaning it. My tank walls are still very dirty though. I have about 20 snails and they clean it alittle but just in small lines. Should I clean off the walls myself with something? Or just let it go on its own?
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crm13
Guest
Personally, I didn't clean the side walls or the back walls. I just cleaned the front glass. Eventually, the brown algae subsided, but I think that maybe because I didn't clean the back and side walls that it may have taken a bit longer to go away than if I had cleaned them. But, that's what I did, so I don't really know for sure. Maybe you could get some other points of views on that, but I think that it's really just personal preference on which walls you want to be clean. Part of the reason that I didn't really go crazy cleaning the walls is that my lmb loved to eat that stuff, so I just left it. Plus, the coralline was starting to look pretty cool up there too.