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29-05-2005, 10:47 PM
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Green is Algae Brown = WHAT ???
Hi ,
My tank gets a lot of brown (algae?? sustance) on everything especially the inside of the glass. WHAT is this and how can I reduce this??? I have a Eheim filter , why doesn't it filter it out, what kind of filter substrate do you recommand? I have circulary ceramic and a layer of (what looks like chunks of white sea coral), also a layer or little stones that look like their from a creek, but way smaller. What am I doing wrong so that so much brown stuff sticks to my aqurium and will the use of a Protein skimmer reduce this hazzard?? Thank you for now , I'll be back Ralph Honsbeek 
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30-05-2005, 03:20 AM
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Hi Ralph,
The brown stuff that coats your glass, sand, gravel, rocks is a form of brown algae, called diatoms. They're fueled by silicates from tap water combined with your lighting. You won't get this problem if you use RO/DI water for making up your SW. To control it now, you can use a variety of biological means, like sea cucumbers, algae blenny (fish), bristletooth (fish), various snails like the Astrea, Turbo and Trochus species. All of these will the diatoms for you. Quote:
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30-05-2005, 11:19 AM
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I read that diatom is somekind of plankton as well, the lowest food chain in sea live. Its not that bad, just do something easy and natural to control it, like deep_end suggested using the right "consumers".
If these brown stuffs produced bubbles, its probably not diatom, something else baddies (bad bad bad).
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30-05-2005, 11:15 PM
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hi honsbeek
Firstly, where are you writing from? See if you can edit your location in your profile. This helps to determine whether or not certain products are available in your country. If you're in Malaysia where I am, RO/DI (reverse osmosis/deionised) water is very hard to come by. If you're in the US, you can even buy household units. If you're in .... etc. See what I mean? Quote:
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22-02-2006, 07:16 AM
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i am also new to this forum, and am having problems with diatoms. a local pet store suggested that i take my live rock out of the tank and brush off all the agea with a painbrush and add poly-ox to the tank....well i did all that and sure enough the diatoms coming back (slowly but surely). is there another route i can take as far as adding chems. instead of adding new fish and spending a ton of money on a reverse osmosis/deionised?
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