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skype
07/10/2006, 07:49 PM
why are my rocks turning brown? Am I leaving my lights on too long?
This is a new tank that has been running for over 3 weeks now.
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theop
07/10/2006, 07:54 PM
Diatoms. They live off of silicates and will eventually go away. They are common in new tanks and are not harmful. You don't need to do anything specific about them.
skype
07/10/2006, 09:07 PM
thank you.. i love the ppl here!
How long will it take for it to go away? Should I start adding calcium so the nice purple stuff will start growing?
AquaReeferMan
07/10/2006, 09:32 PM
You should add some astraea snails they kick *** at eating diatoms. It will eventually go away but you should add a clean up crew. The Coraline (nice purple stuff) will come with time, its rare to see a lot of coraline in young tanks. HTH
RobNJ
07/10/2006, 09:44 PM
tap water likes to create nice brown algea
skype
07/10/2006, 10:22 PM
i used ro/di water, a reading of 1-2 tds from my meter.
silversnake
07/10/2006, 11:49 PM
get an rodi unit when you can.
skype
07/10/2006, 11:53 PM
silversnake,
yes.. i did use rodi water. please refer to my post before yours.
marine134
07/11/2006, 02:24 AM
skype is most of your rock is dry base rock mixed with some live rock.
skype
07/11/2006, 09:53 AM
All the rock came from an established tank (I got it used from a local reefer). But I had a problem with my tank, so I had to tear it down to fix it, and during that process, I had the rock out of water but was covered it up with wet newspaper.
LivinThaLyfe33
07/11/2006, 10:57 AM
just part of the cycle...nothing to worry about but picking up some turbos and a star will help with it going away...i threw an urchin in with a star and they had a grand ol' time