Brown algae!!!! Help!!!!

[Grubby]

This stuff is everywhere. What now?

[kcooley]

how old is your tank? what is in it? what kind of filtration and lighting do you have?

[Grubby]

its about a month old. Just fish and live rock. I am running a sump with live rock, and I am also running a canister filter with carbon only. I am running two 250 m/h and t5 for contrast

[kcooley]

what is your photocycle, and how long before you added fish?

[sasharotty]

A month old?? Probably shouldnt have fish in there yet.But its normal, just going through the stages.As soon as the brown stuff goes away you will get some green stuff.lol Its normal

[karsseboom]

thats normal cause your tank just cycled, you have a source of nutrients coming from somewhere your gonna have to check out the phosphate and nitrate levels in your tank...did you use tap water?

[Grubby]

Yes i used tap water thats all we have here in the country. Guess i could have used river water LOL. I am looking for a RO unit to put it my house. Nitrates are good not sure about phosphates.

[Sk8r]

You're going to have troubles until you get a ro/di unit. For right now, if it goes away overnight and reappears during the day, it's cyanobacteria. Poke the blue number under my avatar and look for a post about algae and that will tell you a lot about how to fight various things including cyano.