[philolsen]

I have had my tank (38 gal) set up for 3 months now to fully cycle it for a pony tank, I still have a issue with brown algae on my substrate, rocks and I added some gorgianas a few days ago and now it is even starting to grow on them
I have a good handle on the basics, I use RO/DI water, I am not feeding other than a couple mysis once a week for the nassiouris snails and a small piece of clam every 3 days for the CC star, provide good skimming (Ramora), light are on 8 hours per day, hang on fuge and a 196 watt pc fixture with 2 month old bulbs. nitrites are 0 , nitrates are 5. It has 12 nassarious snails, 5 black turbos, 2 mexican turbos, 1 sand shifter star and a chocolate chip star for live stock, about 15-20 lbs LR a sea fan and 3 gorgianas.
I plan on adding the ponies within a week or so so I would really like to loose the ugly brown distraction from the rest of the tank.[ATTACH][/ATTACH]

[dobz55]

Mate that be normal it will go, I have been through the brown stage the red stage the green stage right now I have a serious out break of the green stage again and have asked Ninong for help , believe me the brown will clear up, my tank is 4 months old so as they all tell me it be still but a baby and wait for it to grow up lol

[gbtrain]

The brown algae will go away it's all part of starting a new tank.