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Bobby A.

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I JUST BOUGHT A SET OF THE CORALIFE AQUALIGHT PLUS LIGHTS.... EVERYTHING WAS GOOD FOR ABOUT A WEEK WITH THEM THEN OVER NIGHT MY SAND BED WAS COVERED WITH A REDISH BROWN ALGAE.... COULD SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT KIND OF ALGAE IT IS AND HOW I CAN GET RID OF IT, PLEASE.
THANKS.
 
diatoms or cyno. Hard to tell without a picture up, but let me calm your nerves. This is perfectly normal in all new tanks. Make sure you have decent flow in the tank, water change regularly, do not over feed, and in time this will pass.......only to be replaced by more algae!!! Again, that's normal too.

You'll go through several phases of algae before the tank matures past that point. Make sure you have a decent algae crew, detritus crew, and something sifting through that sand (not a sand sifting starfish though).

It's nothing to worry about yet. If you see this in a year from now, then worry.
 
I just read someones quote in a different thread and it might prepare you a little better. "it seems like this entire hobby is about algae control". New tanks always start with a lot of algae. RO/DI water helps.
 
WHAT IS GOOD FOR SIFTING THROUGH THE SAND??? I DO WATER CHANGES ONCE A WEEK SHOULD I SIPHON THE STUFF OFF THE SAND WHEN I DO THE WATER CHANGE????

ALSO I HAVE TWO POWER HEADS ONE SEIO 620 AND A SEIO 850... ALSO THE ONE FROM THE FILTER.... SHOULD I HAVE MORE FLOW IN MY 75 GALLON???
 
Wow, take your caps lock off. Gives me a headache. Anyway, get a variety of snails like said above.

For flow in the tank; what kind of filter do you have? If you have a FOWLER, 10x75g or 750gph would be plenty of flow. For a reef you can double that. So, take the output of your powerheads and add the output of the filter and that gives you what you currently have for flow.
 
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