those who have had brown algae

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jworth

jworth

Jack Dempsey
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Sep 9, 2008
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ammonia and nitrite 0
nitrate <5
50 lbs pool filter sand
75 gal tank
coming up on 2 months running

had this algae for 2-3 weeks and it seems that it is only bad where light hits it (nothing under the stump in my tank). fish are fine. levels are good. how and when the heck will this crap go away. i read that it can be caused by silicates and you can put a silicate remover in your filter. anything about that? i heard it just goes away but its been a while it seems and it is an eyesore. thanks for the help. current fish are baby pbass, baby oscar, baby channel cat, baby chocolate pleco.
 
Zero success here as well. Total pain in the butt! Some of my tanks that have it, have been running for over a year now.
 
come on now. i would much rather have good news! this tank is in my living room! someone is bound to have positive results.
 
scrub it off, when it comes back, scrub it off the glass and junk again. I have that problem to in certian spots on my glass and maybe on a rock. Some of my tank have it and some of my tanks dont have it at all. I just scrub it off and clean then tank and it goes away for abit. I bought one of those magnetic scrubbers =]

I know that is not the answer you were looking for but nothing else worked for me either.
 
well my pleco keeps the walls ans stmp pretty clean its my sand and it doesnt make a coat it just looks like part of my sand is brown
 
All you can really do is keep cleaning it. Sux...i know!
 
It's common in immature tanks, mine just seemingly dissapears overnight after 6-7 months never to be seen again. it's actually not 'algae' but a live organism. Look up 'diatoms'. It can also occur in tanks with high nitrates and a lot of uneaten food, but in your case (and mine, I know) that's not the reason. Keep rubbing it off, it'll eventually go away :-)
 
My tank has been up like 8 months now, and I am pretty sure its mostly gone. I also dropped the lighting down from 80 to 40 watts though.

previous poster: algae is a living organism too :)
 
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