Brown Spots

Hi,

Hope someone can help me.

This week theres suddenly this brown spots on one of the shells in my tank as well on one of my plants.

Is this something to worry about?

 

Dontknow... is this a new tank set up or old tank?

Can you post pics?

 

Zoom,

Its an new tank almost 4 weeks old.

i'll post some pics tonight.

 

Go here to to confrim the pictures are the same:

http://images.google.com/images?um=...s+in+tank&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0

Then here to read up on what it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatom

It is VERY common in new tanks, and will eventually go away. It can last up to 6 weeks, and can make the tank look absolutely terrible. When I had it, I made the fatal mistake of scrubbing it clean... this made it worse!

 

Does algae eaters eat this stuff? I have this brown algae in my new tank and the dwarf gourami seems to chow it.

 

My dwarf gourami eats it so most likely some other fish will as well. Get yourself some siamese algae eaters, apparently they eat basically anything algae like.

Shame we can't get freshwater shrimp in this country. Amano shrimp is also quite formidable in algae control.

 

will this happen in fresh and saltwater tanks?

 

I've seen it before in Saltwater tanks... whether it's the same stuff I don' tknow

 

Diatoms. Yes they occur both in FW and SW. Usually on new or newly setup tanks

 

My 2m tank has brown algea growing on the back & side glass but my Tanganyikan Cichlids enjoy this and especially my tropheus. Algea is good for fry as there are microscopic particles that they enjoy. I usually scrap off the glass.