[pastejohn]

hey, i just started up my mini reef 20L. starting to get brown algae everywhere on the rocks.

i have blue legs, snails, and a halloween crab. skimmer, and a powerhead. candy coral, xenia (that's about dead... i need to revive it somehow), and galaxia.

i need to know how to stop this outbreak before it gets out of hand.. thanks.

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[Neal359]

most new tanks do gow through a period of this and you just have to waight it out. you may want to try puting in some turbo snales they realy good at eating that typ

[SPasse]

Pastejohn,

The brown diatom stage usually immediately follows your initial nitrogen cycle.

See if you can get someone to baby-sit you corals until this stage is past.

Corals are typically not to be added until the system has been running several months, at least.

You are rushing your system.

What are your parameters, i.e. ammonia, nitrite, nitrate?

Regards,

Scott

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[pastejohn]

well, its been cycled for a lil while now... but i will just let it get over it. all my nitrates, etc, check out ... although the nitrates are a little more, but not much. i will just let the crabs have a feast. :]

thanks for the help.

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