Algae identification

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Hello everyone,
This is my first tank and my first post on reef2reef. I recently had some sort of brown algae show up in my tank and it is beginning to spread a lot more. My tank has been going for around 6 months and has ran with no issues until now. I didn’t introduce lighting until about 2 weeks ago and I expected to go through an ‘ugly phase.’ I was mainly wondering if anybody had any idea of what type of algae this could be so I can formulate how I will combat it.

If any info about the tank would be helpful for assessment please let me know so I can provide it, thanks!

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Hello everyone,
This is my first tank and my first post on reef2reef. I recently had some sort of brown algae show up in my tank and it is beginning to spread a lot more. My tank has been going for around 6 months and has ran with no issues until now. I didn’t introduce lighting until about 2 weeks ago and I expected to go through an ‘ugly phase.’ I was mainly wondering if anybody had any idea of what type of algae this could be so I can formulate how I will combat it.

If any info about the tank would be helpful for assessment please let me know so I can provide it, thanks!

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Diatoms are usually the first golden-brown film forming micro algae.
 

Algae invading algae: Have you had unwanted algae in your good macroalgae?

  • I regularly have unwanted algae in my macroalgae.

    Votes: 45 35.4%
  • I occasionally have unwanted algae in my macroalgae.

    Votes: 28 22.0%
  • I rarely have unwanted algae in my macroalgae.

    Votes: 9 7.1%
  • I never have unwanted algae in my macroalgae.

    Votes: 10 7.9%
  • I don’t have macroalgae.

    Votes: 31 24.4%
  • Other.

    Votes: 4 3.1%
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