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| Posted | Brown alge on glass Not very appeling |
| 19-04-2006 23:21 by tommy |
how do i stop this .. my nitrate seems to go up and down but is fine at the mom but still gettin brown alege on the glass IS it beacuse of lighting .. |
| 19-04-2006 23:53 by PAUL OWEN |
Hi Tommy do you have a marine setup?
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| 20-04-2006 00:00 by PAUL OWEN |
i just had a quick look through the marine sections,and there were a few posts about brown algae problems maybe they could provide the answer your looking for!There doesn't seem to be many knowledgeable peeps on tonight so things are going slowly,i'm still waiting for answers to my bloom queries,good luck anyway,hope you get it sussed. |
| 20-04-2006 09:15 by PaddyD |
Brown algaes are not usually because of light, the most likely is excess nitrates and phosphates. What level is your nitrate at the moment? I would probably suggest going for a bag of phosphate removing resin and see how you get on. |
| 20-04-2006 18:51 by tommy |
i have all this .... and nitrate at the mom is zero |
| 21-04-2006 08:06 by billysfc |
I'm not sure if this is a specific type of algae that you are dealing with, but I have never known a tank without an algae build up on the glass. I also have a friend who has kept Marines for 20 years and has even had his own shop and still gets algae on the glass. Unless this is some different type of algae to normal, I would say that it is normal and you can just scrape it off with an algae scraper. One thing that I do is only clean the front glass, this leaves the sides and rear to grow a thin layer, ( which can be lept in check by my snails ) that will absorb some of the nutriants in the water, and should therefore slow down the growth of algae elsewhere. |
| 21-04-2006 22:38 by Willuk |
I get this and take it as the norm as my water levels are spot on. However I did find that leaving my white lights off a little longer each day has slowed it down. I'm afraid you will have to get a magnet glass cleaner. It only takes me 5 mins to clean tank glass once evry 2 weeks or so. |
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