Help needed - mini bubbles and brown algae on new rocks

[David Cher]

Hi

Around 2 weeks ago I change away the artificial rocks from my tank to change it to the live rocks. I have been dosing bio s from af but now having brown algae and mini bubbles ,what can I do???

 

[DancingShark]

Your probably just curing/ cycling the rock. They are diatoms. then you will get green algea. It's part of the curing process. I won't do anything at this time.
Pictures under whites are best to see what your really taking about tho.

 

[Cscultho]

Give some background on the tank. Age, size, livestock and parameters.

 

[David Cher]

age of the tank : 1.5 years
age of rocks - 2 weeks added to tank after 1 weeks of cycling
8 fishes - put , YT , wrasse and BT
No3 = 0.2 ppm
po4 = 0.06ppm

 

[David Cher]

Your probably just curing/ cycling the rock. They are diatoms. then you will get green algea. It's part of the curing process. I won't do anything at this time.
Pictures under whites are best to see what your really taking about tho.

i am using Radion Ab+ in white light and taking it using my iPhone 6 plus

 

[Cscultho]

Im making a leap here but i am assuming you have a form of dino's. A better pic might help and a true identification requires a microscope. You may have introduced dinos when you added the LR? I would suggest increasing your PO4 and No3 levels to help grow a competing algae.

Does the algae get stringy with bubble ends?

 

[David Cher]

No stringy with bubbles

 

[Cscultho]

Let it ride for a while since it might be the introduction of new LR into your system but keep an eye on your P&N since you DO NOT want them to read zero. I suggest even dosing some just to get the #'s up a bit. P=0.1 & N=5.

 

[David Cher]

Let it ride for a while since it might be the introduction of new LR into your system but keep an eye on your P&N since you DO NOT want them to read zero. I suggest even dosing some just to get the #'s up a bit. P=0.1 & N=5.

thought po4 to be kept at 0.03?

 

[Cscultho]

thought po4 to be kept at 0.03?

When I battled Dino’s it was suggested when fighting Dino’s anything less than 0.1 is essentially zero PO4. So I kept mine elevated above 0.1 and it helped suppress the Dino. But in addition to elevating my P&N I also went barebottom.