Is this just a part of the ugly stage?

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Tank been up and running about 4 months, not sure if I need to do anything about this or just leave it to run it's course, seems to be in the low flow area's but with it being a red sea max nano it's difficult to get the powerhead angled to get more flow but not create a sand storm, plus the Ric and Hammer is happy as it is.
There are diatoms which is coating the glass more or less daily which I not concerned about but what about the algae on the sand?
Last set of tests were - KH- 11.2, CA- 400, MG- 1270, PO4- 0.13, NO3- 25 PO4 might be lower as I'm using salifert tests so not good at very low levels.

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Could be diatoms or the start of Dino’s. Only way to tell it to pull out some water with the brown stuff and look under microscope
 

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Tank been up and running about 4 months, not sure if I need to do anything about this or just leave it to run it's course, seems to be in the low flow area's but with it being a red sea max nano it's difficult to get the powerhead angled to get more flow but not create a sand storm, plus the Ric and Hammer is happy as it is.
There are diatoms which is coating the glass more or less daily which I not concerned about but what about the algae on the sand?
Last set of tests were - KH- 11.2, CA- 400, MG- 1270, PO4- 0.13, NO3- 25 PO4 might be lower as I'm using salifert tests so not good at very low levels.

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What animals do you have cleaning the sand?
 

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While yes the strombus snails will stir the sand they eat detritus and un-eaten foods fed to fish and other tank mates.
 

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