Brown Algae

[kingic]

any way to stop brown algae booming. I had algae scrubber and protein skimmer still cannot stop brown algae.

[hotsoup]

As long there is light, algae will grow. U can get algae eater such as snails or algae Benny to clean up

[kingic]

what cause the brown algae boom? it only happen since last week.

[oldrookiesjeremy]

New tank syndrome, let the biological filtration balance itself. For the mean time weekly water change bah

[hotsoup]

PO4 is one of the main cause too

[kingic]

do a 50% wc still unable to stop brown algae booming. can algae X stop it? i have algae scrubber. will algae X kill it too?

[finind]

Brown alage??

only seen red and green b4

hairy or patch? diatoms?

[superior1]

any way to stop brown algae booming. I had algae scrubber and protein skimmer still cannot stop brown algae.

I added chaeto to control the growth of brown algae, so far, it worked.

thxs.

[finind]

I'm using distilled water and phosphate is 0 but the portion of liverock around middle water column, nearest to the light have brown stuff like diatom spreading. My return flows are definitely moving water at that portion .... how come still cannot avoid ..appear after cycling for 6 weeks

[yongshun]

how old is your tank? usually is new tank symdrome. mine still appear for 2-3 mths after cycling. cannot siam 1....if it's nt due to new tank syndrome, you shd check ur PO4 n lighting. running a FR wif rowas, increase flow, get cleaning crews such as big turbo snails, chaeto, reduce ur lighting hours etc will help,

my 2 cents

[finind]

seems like my blue-leg hermit has come to the rescue .. though so far only 50% done

seems like it has cleaned some of the new grow green alage

wah walking on thin string

will reduce feeding quantity ... now feed once every night

so far 10% water change every week ..NO3 is ard 5mg/L

[finind]

added 3 astrea snails and they clean up the diatoms on the rock more thoroughly, better than blue-legged hermit

[finind]

seems like seachem PhosGuard has good review