Coralline has landed, what’s next?

[sayurasem]

Hello, my tank is four months old. It went through brown diatom stage for the last month and now transitioning to green diatom stage. I also see coralline starting to encrust on some of my rocks.

should I brush and siphon the green diatoms on my rocks to help the coralline?

my parameters are:
Temp: 78.5F
Salinity: 34.5ppt
Kh: 8.9dkh
Cal: 440ppm
Mag: 1410ppm
No3: 6.5ppm
Po4: 0.13ppm

 

[Jekyl]

Coraline takes the longest to grow. I'd just keep doing as you've been doing. Eventually you will be tired of dealing with it instead of excited to see it.

 

[sayurasem]

Coraline takes the longest to grow. I'd just keep doing as you've been doing. Eventually you will be tired of dealing with it instead of excited to see it.

Got it, thanks!

 

[stovenut]

4 months. tank should be starting to stabilize. Have you had issues with GHA yet?

I would just let the tank mature naturally. Add some CUC members along the way to make the tank look a little nicer, but it will naturally clear up over the next couple of months.

 

[sayurasem]

4 months. tank should be starting to stabilize. Have you had issues with GHA yet?

I would just let the tank mature naturally. Add some CUC members along the way to make the tank look a little nicer, but it will naturally clear up over the next couple of months.

No green hair algae so far. I did have either cyano/ dino two weeks ago because my nitrates bottomed out (no3: 0.0ppm and po4: 0.03ppm). Starting last week I dosed brightwell neonitro and got my nitrates back up. I’m not sure how phosphate went up as well, but 0.13ppm is okay I guess.

picture of cyano/ dino two weeks ago: