Algae probs...

[Michael Lawford]

Hi All,

I set-up my marine tank about 3 months ago. I still have a brown algae in
there that covers everything and I have to brush it off every 3 days. What
am I doing wrong?

~m

[BigHaig]

1) How often do you do water changes? Do you use RO/DI or tap water?
2) What are your nitrate/nitrite levels?
3) How long do you leave lights on in tank? What kelvin/type of lights?
4) Is there direct sunlight in the tank?
5) Do you have snails/crabs/algae pack in you tank?
6) Do you have a sump/refugem?

Things to make US helping YOU easier.

"Michael Lawford" > wrote in message
...
> Hi All,
>
> I set-up my marine tank about 3 months ago. I still have a brown algae in
> there that covers everything and I have to brush it off every 3 days.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> ~m
>

[redsea.pl]

To tell you the truth, I had the same problem.
I allowed the tank, to live it`s own life, and I did nothing... and now, I
have no problems with brown algae.
Unfortunatelly it is not always so simple. A cause of a brown algae may be,
not only unstable parameters of water, but also uncorrect light parameters,
or sometimes bad quality of RO water.


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U¿ytkownik "Michael Lawford" > napisa³ w
wiadomo¶ci ...
> Hi All,
>
> I set-up my marine tank about 3 months ago. I still have a brown algae in
> there that covers everything and I have to brush it off every 3 days.
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> ~m
>

[Michael Lawford]

My LFS say that it is because my tank is starting but I expected it to be
gone by now.

Answers to the questions:

1) How often do you do water changes? Do you use RO/DI or tap water?
2) What are your nitrate/nitrite levels?
3) How long do you leave lights on in tank? What kelvin/type of lights?
4) Is there direct sunlight in the tank?
5) Do you have snails/crabs/algae pack in you tank?
6) Do you have a sump/refugem?

1) Once per month - 25l of RO for my 200-250L tank.
2) 0
3) 8 hours per day (we are now in winter) 4 x T5's (one blue 3 white).
4) Nope
5) Nope but I do have a phosphate remover running in my Fluval filter.
6) Yes I do.

Is this just as it is a new tank? What am I doing wrong?

Mike

"redsea.pl" > wrote in message
...
> To tell you the truth, I had the same problem.
> I allowed the tank, to live it`s own life, and I did nothing... and now, I
> have no problems with brown algae.
> Unfortunatelly it is not always so simple. A cause of a brown algae may
> be, not only unstable parameters of water, but also uncorrect light
> parameters, or sometimes bad quality of RO water.
>
>
> --
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> Marcin Kansy
>
> ------------------------------
> www.redsea.pl - Sklep
> www.mini.redsea.pl - Sklep z ¿yciem morskim
> www.portal.redsea.pl - Portal po¶wiêcony akwarystyce morskiej
>
> U¿ytkownik "Michael Lawford" > napisa³ w
> wiadomo¶ci ...
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I set-up my marine tank about 3 months ago. I still have a brown algae
>> in there that covers everything and I have to brush it off every 3 days.
>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> ~m
>>
>
>

[redsea.pl]

> 1) How often do you do water changes? Do you use RO/DI or tap water?
> 2) What are your nitrate/nitrite levels?
> 3) How long do you leave lights on in tank? What kelvin/type of lights?
> 4) Is there direct sunlight in the tank?
> 5) Do you have snails/crabs/algae pack in you tank?
> 6) Do you have a sump/refugem?
>
> 1) Once per month - 25l of RO for my 200-250L tank.
> 2) 0
> 3) 8 hours per day (we are now in winter) 4 x T5's (one blue 3 white).
> 4) Nope
> 5) Nope but I do have a phosphate remover running in my Fluval filter.
> 6) Yes I do.
>
> Is this just as it is a new tank? What am I doing wrong?
>

Try this way :

Do not brush the algae. Wait and it should gone by itselfe. If the
parameters of water and other stuff are OK, it will not come back ;)

[Marc Levenson]

Hi Mike,

You should be changing 25% of the tank's volume each month. Is it 200L
or 250L?

You need snails and hermit crabs in your tank, which will consume this
stuff. They are commonly referred to as a 'clean-up crew'. There are
lots of kinds of animals you can use, but the favorites are nassarius
snails, cucumbers and fighting conchs for the sand; Astrea, Cerith and
Turbo snails for the glass and rock. You can view these little animals
on my ID page. Turn off your pop-up stopper, and click on the images to
see larger pictures with some documentation for each creature.

http://www.melevsreef.com/id/

Marc


Michael Lawford wrote:
> My LFS say that it is because my tank is starting but I expected it to be
> gone by now.
>
> Answers to the questions:
>
> 1) How often do you do water changes? Do you use RO/DI or tap water?
> 2) What are your nitrate/nitrite levels?
> 3) How long do you leave lights on in tank? What kelvin/type of lights?
> 4) Is there direct sunlight in the tank?
> 5) Do you have snails/crabs/algae pack in you tank?
> 6) Do you have a sump/refugem?
>
> 1) Once per month - 25l of RO for my 200-250L tank.
> 2) 0
> 3) 8 hours per day (we are now in winter) 4 x T5's (one blue 3 white).
> 4) Nope
> 5) Nope but I do have a phosphate remover running in my Fluval filter.
> 6) Yes I do.
>
> Is this just as it is a new tank? What am I doing wrong?
>
> Mike

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