Brown alge ?

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Hey everyone I have a 24 gallon aquatop tank and just started they cycling for about 3 weeks now and on the 3rd week I started noticing brown alge growing only on my live rocks I wanted to know what should be my next step do I let it grow out and will it die off on it's own or do I get some kind of dosing for it
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You normally run all of that white light? Don't even need a light while cycling really. I had some bubble algae pop up, added an emerald crab and been good to go.

How much are you running the lights and what temp?
 
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You normally run all of that white light? Don't even need a light while cycling really. I had some bubble algae pop up, added an emerald crab and been good to go.

How much are you running the lights and what temp?
I was told by my lfs to run the lights for 6 hours but since I seen the alge grow I keep them off my temp is 78 I added hemit crabs about 3 days ago an the sand bed is pretty much clean an one of my live rocks are clean
 

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