Clean my live rock in tank?

clownfishowner225

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Hi, I’ve had my live rocks in the tank for a couple of weeks and was wondering if I should be cleaning the brown off of them? Or if I’m supposed to leave it and it

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let it ride. are you working toward coralline or going for the white rock look? is this going to be FOWLR or reef?
where are you on the cycle? what else is in there now? welcome to R2R if i have yet to say that to you!!
 

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Will bump this for you to see if someone with more experience than me can answer you.
But for me im not partically bothered to much about having dirty looking or algae covered rocks compared to some i see complain they got to much algae etc in tank when just lightly covered.
I just class it as free food for the cuc.
But depends how clean you want the rocks to look aslong as algae not causing any water issues or covering/ impeding on corals and hindering them i just let it be.im only 4 months into my tank so in ugly stages and still few algae cycles to come but will keep buying more cuc as and when required to help keep it in check and my inhabitants mainly all got a job to help me in my job of cleaning / keeping tank running.
My recent expansion of cuc included 2 urchins,6 nas snails,6 troucous snails,6 mini hermits,2 conchs and as you can see on glass they attacking the growth on back glass from bottom up and top down and urchins cleaning my rocks up big time,only been in over a week but vigorously eating it all so far.
So you could clean it off but i think it isnt that bad so would just leave it be and let it do its thing.
I guess you still cycling tank? Or a recent tank set up ? If is live rock then could add some cuc as usually means instant cycled with a little die off depending how long rocks out water etc and if dry rock and still cycling i read alot that most keep lights off while cycling so bacteria has more chance to colonise without algae fighting for nutrients so depends how and what you doing and what you want to achieve.
Ovbiously dont buy to much cuc at one time imo and if they eat all the algae,cyano etc etc then your job to keep them fed while your tank makes more food for them

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