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Originally Posted by donkey77
its the deep sea aquatics neo nano 34g, 25g sump, vortec mp10, two little fishes phosban reactor, AI del sol led, 34lbs LR, 30lbs live sand, 4 fish and corals, blastos, zoos, ect. i do water changes every sunday , all i have in my sump is some black sponge filter ,and of course all the other stuff heater, etc
should i have better filtration cause iam getting this long skinny brown alge, my take is about a month old, i got cured LR and sand from an established system, anyways any help thanks
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That long skinny brown algea is prob a diatom bloom. does it have bubbles attached to it?? with your tank being that young it is to be expected. it will go away in time. frequent water changes and gfo in a reactor will help. i used rowaphos when i was having a diatom bloom and it helped lots but now use brs gfo. when mine got real bad and i couldnt get it to go away i did a three days light out and it helped.
edit-just noticed u said you got used live rock and sand. when ever i stir up my sand or have changed tanks i will get a small to medium cycle and a diatom bloom. all that crap from the sand gets into the water column and raised the phosphate levels. It sucks but stick with the water changes and use phosphate remover and it will fix itself.
Are you using ro/di water for your water changes. if not that is going to be something your going to want to do. it is highly recommended that salt water tanks use a water source with 0 total dissolved solids.