bah!!ugly redishbrown algae everywhere

[NanoMan]

i came home today from work and my tank is not the same tank i left this morning.the brown algae has consumed my live rock and my glass and working on my sand. is it going to kill the coraline algae? it looks gross. will my fish eat it?how do i get rid of it?
when will i get the green algae?

[Dale W.]

How long has your tank been set up?
It sounds like you have the good ol brown Cyano growing. If the tank is fairly new, it is a stage that it will go through. If you keep your alk and calcium, it will help keep the stuff from growing to much. If it gets way out of hand there is a product that will get rid of it which is called Chemi-clean. This stuff is reef safe and works well.

[kbaker721]

What do you mean by the alk and calcium? My tank has been up about a year and I just recently started adding some Kent Marine Liquid Reactor (supposed to help coraline algea grow on lr) and took the carbon out of my filter. I recently started getting some brown algea on the tank, subsrate, and lr. I don't add that much just a little every few days. Just wondering if its the no-carbon filter or the chems....

[Dale W.]

OOPS :D
I guess I left out the word "up" Keep your alk and calcium levels up.

Are you testing your calcium level in the tank and if so, what is it?
What are the rest of the test readings and what do you have for a substrate?

[NanoMan]

i have a 4'' dsb
no i havent checked my calcium or alk yet
i just have a regular test kit
only does ph/nitrite/nitrate/ammonia
my water is perfect as far as my tests go other than
calc and alk