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How long has your cycle been running and how did you start it off?I’m getting an algae bloom while cycling my 20 gallon tank but all of my levels are good. My ammonia is 0, my nitrates and nitrites are also 0, what can I do about it?
How long has your cycle been running and how did you start it off?
Got any photos of the algae? Could just be diatoms which typically comes after the cycle.
Algae after a cycle, even hair algae, is normal. Your test results suggest the cycle is complete and the algae is consuming the nitrates resulting from it.It’s not diatoms it’s hair algae and it’s been cycling for 4 weeks
+1 to this.Algae after a cycle, even hair algae, is normal. Your test results suggest the cycle is complete and the algae is consuming the nitrates resulting from it.
Do your tests throughout your cycle support this? I.e. have you seen ammonia and nitrite sequentially rise and fall? How are you cycling the tank? How did you seed the ammonia, any live rock or bacteria added?
Just want to get some confidence your cycle is complete.