Hi all,
I just turned a 30 gallon breeder tank into a salt water aquarium with live rock, sand, mushroom corals and a couple of clown fish which I took from a 10 gallon tank. I used the sand from the older tank and put new sand on top of the old sand. I let the tank cycle before adding the coral, mushroom and fish. I purchased a Current Orbit LOOP light for the tank and have a couple of power heads and a couple of HOB filters. I am using RO water. My problem is that the tank has been running for 7 weeks now and now the tank has brown algae mostly on the sand. I did a water change last weekend and removed the brown algae but it has returned. Could the setting on my light be wrong which is causing this algae or is the just something a new tank goes through. Please let me know how to get rid of this problem. Thanks
I just turned a 30 gallon breeder tank into a salt water aquarium with live rock, sand, mushroom corals and a couple of clown fish which I took from a 10 gallon tank. I used the sand from the older tank and put new sand on top of the old sand. I let the tank cycle before adding the coral, mushroom and fish. I purchased a Current Orbit LOOP light for the tank and have a couple of power heads and a couple of HOB filters. I am using RO water. My problem is that the tank has been running for 7 weeks now and now the tank has brown algae mostly on the sand. I did a water change last weekend and removed the brown algae but it has returned. Could the setting on my light be wrong which is causing this algae or is the just something a new tank goes through. Please let me know how to get rid of this problem. Thanks