Like ghoffman, every tank I have started also generates a brown diatom bloom within a week or so.
I believe that proper lighting has little to do with this phenomenon, it just seems to be a start up phase that all of my tanks have gone through.
Shortly after, I notice rapid coralline algae forming on the glass, and the brown tapering off.
Turbo snails do wonders on brown diatom.
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150g acrylic/50g sump/berlin skimmer/2-175MH 2-110WVHO/
72g oceanic bowfront/20g sump/260W pc/berlin skimmer.
20g NANO with anemone and false percula
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