autojunkie
Member
i went down to my tank today and thrs starting to grow brown algae. how do i stop it. params are fine..
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fishieness
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most likely not algae.
probably diatoms that are common occurences in tanks that:
-are new
-use tap water (included "treated" water)
-were recently upgraded to better lights
-near a window
-contains silicates
-ect.
probably diatoms that are common occurences in tanks that:
-are new
-use tap water (included "treated" water)
-were recently upgraded to better lights
-near a window
-contains silicates
-ect.
jdecter
Member
if you have "default" or "free with new tank purchase" florecent lamps on your tank they usually tend to be purplish in color which give more of a red color array in lighting spectrum which brown algae needs to grow.
I learned all this just last week when I noticed my tank getting a nice coating of brown algae on all the top layer of my rocks and sand and CC.
I was running my hood that I got free with the tank about 12 hours a day, basically as the sun came up and down, to give the damsels i put to cycle the tank a natural day cycle.
I've sinced cut back to about 8 hours max a day and the algae hasn't grown any.
After I finish cycling in the next few weeks I plan to get my cleaning crew started. Tangs and snails love algae and a huge list of crustacians and anything else you might be interested can easily keep your tank clean of algae.
I learned all this just last week when I noticed my tank getting a nice coating of brown algae on all the top layer of my rocks and sand and CC.
I was running my hood that I got free with the tank about 12 hours a day, basically as the sun came up and down, to give the damsels i put to cycle the tank a natural day cycle.
I've sinced cut back to about 8 hours max a day and the algae hasn't grown any.
After I finish cycling in the next few weeks I plan to get my cleaning crew started. Tangs and snails love algae and a huge list of crustacians and anything else you might be interested can easily keep your tank clean of algae.
reefrobert
Member
Hey fishieness, I have a new tank, i use water conditioner, is it possibly that bad? :thinking:
fishieness
Active Member
Originally Posted by ReefRobert
Hey fishieness, I have a new tank, i use water conditioner, is it possibly that bad? :thinking:
tap water conditioner doesnt do all that good IMO. But if you plan to do a reef tank, you will absolutly need to filter your water with an RO unit or a DI, or even better, a combinationn of the two.
Hey fishieness, I have a new tank, i use water conditioner, is it possibly that bad? :thinking:
tap water conditioner doesnt do all that good IMO. But if you plan to do a reef tank, you will absolutly need to filter your water with an RO unit or a DI, or even better, a combinationn of the two.
autojunkie
Member
heh, well it is relativly new (a few months). Its Metal Hallides but it is tap water. I have an RO unit but i need to hook it up. My blue legs ate all my snails! So im goign to remove the culprit blue leg and buymore snails, switch to RO , and try to a a refugium with some macro algae to lower trates... Anything else I can do?