Hello all,
I’ve recently setup the tank of my dreams in my home 2 months ago. This past week, I noticed i’ve accumulated a brown algae that has taken over my whole aquarium. I just ordered a microscope to see what it really is up close, but was wondering if anyone could ID it, or give the best treatment plan for it.
Tank info:
-Red Sea reefer 850 g2+ (225g total volume)
-3 Red Sea 160 LED’s set at 30% blue and 10% white 8am-5pm
-2 reef wave 45 gyres set at 50% random flow
Premium grade
-Carib sea premium grade arag alive sand
-2 clownfish 1 fairy wrasse, one sand eating goby / six like wrasse / one tang
-5 turbo snails 10 astrea snails
-couple hammer corals. ( I just put in coral 1 week before the algae grew)
-supplied freshwater ATO / water changes with BRS 6 stage RO Unit
Chemistry:
Phosphate .05
Nitrate 2ppm
PH 8.2
Calcium 450
Mag 1400
Alk 8.0
Salinity 1.025
I’ve used:
-Dr Tim’s live nitrifying bacteria to cycle
-Introduced coraline algae from bottle
-I feed mysis 1/4 cube everyday to my fish.
-4 bottles of copepods
Does anyone have any experience beating this or know what it is off the top of their heads?
(I kept whites on only for pictures but they are normal 30% blue 10% white 8am-5pm

I’ve recently setup the tank of my dreams in my home 2 months ago. This past week, I noticed i’ve accumulated a brown algae that has taken over my whole aquarium. I just ordered a microscope to see what it really is up close, but was wondering if anyone could ID it, or give the best treatment plan for it.
Tank info:
-Red Sea reefer 850 g2+ (225g total volume)
-3 Red Sea 160 LED’s set at 30% blue and 10% white 8am-5pm
-2 reef wave 45 gyres set at 50% random flow
Premium grade
-Carib sea premium grade arag alive sand
-2 clownfish 1 fairy wrasse, one sand eating goby / six like wrasse / one tang
-5 turbo snails 10 astrea snails
-couple hammer corals. ( I just put in coral 1 week before the algae grew)
-supplied freshwater ATO / water changes with BRS 6 stage RO Unit
Chemistry:
Phosphate .05
Nitrate 2ppm
PH 8.2
Calcium 450
Mag 1400
Alk 8.0
Salinity 1.025
I’ve used:
-Dr Tim’s live nitrifying bacteria to cycle
-Introduced coraline algae from bottle
-I feed mysis 1/4 cube everyday to my fish.
-4 bottles of copepods
Does anyone have any experience beating this or know what it is off the top of their heads?
(I kept whites on only for pictures but they are normal 30% blue 10% white 8am-5pm

