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Originally Posted by asylumdown
If this were any other condition than a cycling tank, I would agree with you. Unwanted algae growth should be dealt with in a mature system, and there's a myriad of tools available to do that. But the first step in dealing with an algae problem is figuring out why it's happening and addressing that. In a tank that hasn't even finished it's nitrite peak, the cause of the algae is clear - it's the tank cycling process. Scrubbing it now is likely to be a futile effort and will more than likely do more harm than good given the way the OP appears to be seeding his tank.
If after a month or so of the cycle being 'complete', that algae is either still spreading or hasn't receded, then I would look in to doing something about it. In that case I would first try manually removing as much of it as possible to see if it was just a hold-over from the cycling process, and if it continued to grow back at a rate that I found unacceptable, I'd look at a combined approach of appropriate herbivores and nutrient reduction strategies. But not during or immediately following the cycle in a tank with mixed live and dead rock like that
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Fair enough.I'll leave it alone and monitor it.Thanks for all the replies. The live rock was indeed purchased to seed the marco.There is about 40 lbs of live and about 160 of marco.Quite the rainbow of colors starting to appear on the marco these days.