Cwesley Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 I have a 29g biocube, with 29 pounds of live rock. It has been running for about 2 months and ammonia, nitrites, nitrate, ph, and phosphates are all at a good level. I'm still getting brown algea and a little green on the walls and sand. What give? Need help. The fish seem to be doing fine. I have 2 damsels, and one tomato clown, scooter blennie. One emerald crab, about 15 snails ( just added yesterday, the snails that is) I'm not sure how to stop this problem. I'm using pre-mixed saltwater, which is RO water, that I buy from Adam at Partners Pets in Round rock. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headless_donkey Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Your tank is just cycling. Brown algae is part of deal. It will go away or turn into green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKarshens Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 Your new snails should help too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cwesley Posted August 2, 2007 Author Share Posted August 2, 2007 I have a 29g biocube, with 29 pounds of live rock. It has been running for about 2 months and ammonia, nitrites, nitrate, ph, and phosphates are all at a good level. I'm still getting brown algea and a little green on the walls and sand. What give? Need help. The fish seem to be doing fine. I have 2 damsels, and one tomato clown, scooter blennie. One emerald crab, about 15 snails ( just added yesterday, the snails that is) I'm not sure how to stop this problem. I'm using pre-mixed saltwater, which is RO water, that I buy from Adam at Partners Pets in Round rock. Any advice is welcome. Thanks.Ok... the algea on the sand is acually more green than brown, Some of my live rock is becoming fuzzy.. like a hair algea is growing on it. Will all that go away too? Its strange because I tested phosphate yester day and it read zero. I guess I will just have to take it slow.Your new snails should help too.I put cured live rock in when I built the tank, is there still a cycling period that I should expect the brown and green hair algea on the rocks i'm getting? I'm about to start doing 5g water changes per week, do you think that will help some? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKarshens Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 That should help. Even with cured live rock you will have a progression on a new tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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