Brown algae on tank glass

Hey, Yes, am really good thanks buddy..

All i do with the brown on the substrate, if its a bad patch, is just syphon it out...My clean up crew take care of the rest.

I would prob suggest upping your nerites to about 10...give yourself a good base of cleanup crew to be working the sand..

All i did with the hair algae is keep pulling it all out, as much as i could, eventually it the grow back keeps gettin less...I just brought some more hermits, big ones as well, so they should help with mowing the lawns..

Niko
 
Thanks Niko ... will plan on upping the nerites in there ... and shall keep a watch on the rocks for any signs of hair algae. Keeping my fingers crossed that all the gunk goes away soon :)
 
it is from upgrading your lights. they are common in new tanks but will often emerge even in older ones if you upgrade your lights as you did/ it will go away in time
and in no way would i recomend getting a linkia. especialy in a new tank. and ESPECIALLY in a 36 gallon
 
Thanks fishieness ... just from experience with brown algae with my FW setup, and how its explodes if the tank gets a little too much direct sunlight, I sort of suspected that the upgrading of the lights might be a cause of it. Also, touch wood, I hadn't really had any sort of algae/diatom bloom in my tank since I started it up, so I guess this one was due! I'll keep doing what I have been and not get frustrated/alarmed at the moment ... just let it ride its course and hopefully it will be gone before long.

Regards,
Yash
 
any time
i just upgraded from a 150 watt halide and 2X65 watt PC to a 250 watt halide and 2X39 watt t5s
ill be expecting a diatom bloom in the near future.
but if not, then that is good, it means i dont have the silicates to feed it :)
 
fishieness said:
but if not, then that is good, it means i dont have the silicates to feed it :)
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Out of curiosity (and for information purposes), when you say the above, does that mean that my tank *does* have some silicates to feed the algae, hence the outbreak? i.e. all things remaining the same, if I didn't have any silicates, should I not have seen what I'm seeing now?
 
I would say the silicates came from the sand that you added to your tank. After the free silicates are used up it should calm down for you. The additional lights also helps algae better utalise nutrients in your water column causing increased growths etc. I would agree with atnixon that you should increase the number and variety of your clean up crew. I'm going to sort of hijack your thread though and warn Niko about large hermits! They can be quite hazardous to the other critters in your tank. IME the red reef ,"red legged hermits", are the way to go as far as hermits go. I would also avoid bumble bee snails and big turbo's in non-established tanks ,"think bulldozer as far as your not quite stuck to the rock inverts go." You are also correct in your opinion about likia they are very picky eaters surface films,"bacteria and SOME micro algae are pretty much all that they will eat.
Cheers and happy New Year !
Max
 
Thanks for your input Max! ... quick question on the cleanup crew ... I was told by the folks at the Aquarium that I shouldn't have more than the 6 snails I currently since the nerites will eventually get big. I'm guessing that is incorrect?? How many more would it be safe for me to add? Should I also add some more nassarius and hermits ... oh and all my hermits are the red-legged kind. Since I mention the red-legged variety, looking closely at their legs, it seems like some are red and some are bright blue. Is this true for red-legged hermits, or was I given the wrong species?

Cheers!
Yash
 
Hiya Yash..

Red legs and blue are both different, not seen a mixture of the two in one hermit...

With regards to snails for your tank, i would have somewhere in the regieon of 5 -10 of Astreas and turbos..Hermits, about 5 - 10 again..

Hope this helps

Niko
 
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