cycling ?

[bader]

just put 12lbs lr and 10lbs ls in my 9 gal and tested for amonia the next day it was some where around 6 or 8 ppm then tested 2 days later 0 amonia and nitrites are realy high but now there is brown algae all over is that right why wouldnt the lr and ls help out that much

 

[mr_x]

it generally takes about a month to cycle an aquarium with live rock. you should not have any algae though, because you shouldn't have the lights on, but you should have detectable ammonia, nitrite, and/or nitrate.
it's doing just what it should be doing.