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I’m currently a week into cycling my tank with live rock from a friends tank thats been established for years now, and a clown fish. And I noticed that my parameters are still down, ammonia etc.. but now i have all this algae growing. Is that normal?

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I’m currently a week into cycling my tank with live rock from a friends tank thats been established for years now, and a clown fish. And I noticed that my parameters are still down, ammonia etc.. but now i have all this algae growing. Is that normal?

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Tank is a 55 Gallon, with a fluval marine 3.0 light, and a fluval 409 50-100 gallon canister filter
 

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