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This sprouted up a week ago. I'm still pretty new and not sure if I should be worried about it. This in a 24 gal. Cardiff tank. Its been running about 10 weeks now. Peramiters are 1.025 salinity, 0 nitrates, 0-2mg/l nitrates, temp. 79°, calcium 440, all (New test kit is on the way), ph 8.2
Any suggestions, or am I worried over nothing.

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Kinda hard to tell what you're talking about, in that photo. The Kenya tree looking thing; the green algae; the dark spots on the rock?
 
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Should have specified, oops, the green algae. It's spread through my tank, just making sure this is a normal thing or if I have something that is off.
 

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Usually see green coralline like that when your phosphates are a bit high.
 

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Very normal in newer tanks. My rock too is covered :) Eventually it will turn purple as the Coralline algae out competes it.
Does NOT mean you have high phosphates.
 
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Just went through the same thing.
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as you can tell in the pic. R.M. Gave me the same advice about green coraline. Even my lfs didn't know what it was. Now about a month later it's darker with pink spots all over the place.
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