Algae probs...

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

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?

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"Michael Lawford" wrote in message
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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

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

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

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

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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