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Posted by Michael Lawford on June 30, 2005, 4:20 am
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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
> 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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>> 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
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> 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
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