Please Help. I Have New Salt Water Tank That Im Setting Up For Fish Only. Right Now I Have 3 Fish In It And They Look To Be Content. Let Me Back Up It Is A 20 Gal Tank That Has Been Running For Like 3 Weeks And Fish In It For About 5 Days. Ok On With The Story, There Is So Much Brown... Algey I Guess That If I Clean It Maybe 2 Days Later At The Most Its All Back. It Covers Everything And I Mean Everything. What Is This And What Can I Do About It. Please Help It Starts To Make The Living Room Smell Bad. Thanks In Advance
Help Please. Brown Stuff In My Tank
- Thread starter jason penwell
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I would love to help you, lets start with the type of fish you have in the tank? Also too, do you have a protein skimmer running on this tank? Is this tank located in the vicinity of a window? When you test the water, what are the levels? Because if this tank has been up and running for three weeks, I'm pretty sure that its not fully cycled.
I would like to know also I don't have much of it but if it gets all over the tank I do. It is only on the sand and I have cycled the tank and it has been sitting fishlles for abot 1-2 weeks after that up intil now I have been using a 2 bulb incandassent fixture wich is so old the switch doesent work so ihad to unplug/plug in to turn on/off . My fish book says that it happpens when you don't have enough light wich i didn't. I upgraded to a 36 watt double tube t-5 coralife aqualight today, I think I solved the problem but my fishbook is the innes 19th edition revised so it's like40-50 years old and is mostly freshwater I could be wrong. The tank has 1 occeleris clown.
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Germanman
My fish are my babies
lets see if i can help
well do you have any algae eating animals in the tank? if not try some turbo snails and hermits. also a protein skimmer would help a lot. another thing to take into consideration is that your tank is going under the normal conditioning where there is a spike in algae growth before it calms down and equals out. also because u have 3 fish as your first in a small tank the phosphates and nitretes are probally high causing algae growth.a 20 gallon marine tank has about a compasity of maybe 4 or 5 3 in fish with a good fiter on it so u basically added more than half the capacity of the tank so the algae is normal. To sum it up get a cleaning crew of crabs and snails in there and wait it out. the conditioning period 4 a tank is usually 5-6 months where in the 5th and 6th month most pest algea dies off and is replaced with desirable algae. good luck!
well do you have any algae eating animals in the tank? if not try some turbo snails and hermits. also a protein skimmer would help a lot. another thing to take into consideration is that your tank is going under the normal conditioning where there is a spike in algae growth before it calms down and equals out. also because u have 3 fish as your first in a small tank the phosphates and nitretes are probally high causing algae growth.a 20 gallon marine tank has about a compasity of maybe 4 or 5 3 in fish with a good fiter on it so u basically added more than half the capacity of the tank so the algae is normal. To sum it up get a cleaning crew of crabs and snails in there and wait it out. the conditioning period 4 a tank is usually 5-6 months where in the 5th and 6th month most pest algea dies off and is replaced with desirable algae. good luck!
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