Brown Alge In my Brackish Tank

[jeffs10]

My SG is 1.014 get really bad brown alge on the glass on on the substate weekly i have to do big water changes every week to get rid of it all. I have a GSP and a scorpion Fish. Feed My puffer krill but remove uneated food daily any suggestions?
0 ammonia
0 nitrate

lights on 8am to 10 pm no timer

should i get a timer and reduce time light is on
Jeff

 

[Menagerie]

Brown algae is not dependant on ligth (no chloroplast). My BW tank gets some algae, but I just wipe it off the tank monthly. Switch to twice a week PWC of 25% and feed your fish every other day. All my fish eat every other day--it's fine for fish. After a month or so, you should see some improvement.
Do you vacuum the substrate when you do the water changes?

 

[jeffs10]

Brown algae is not dependant on ligth (no chloroplast). My BW tank gets some algae, but I just wipe it off the tank monthly. Switch to twice a week PWC of 25% and feed your fish every other day. All my fish eat every other day--it's fine for fish. After a month or so, you should see some improvement.
Do you vacuum the substrate when you do the water changes?

Yes every time do a water change the substrate gets vacuumed.

But with a Green Spotted Puffer is scale less so it needs weekly water changes to stay healthy

 

[Menagerie]

Okay, I suggest doing water changes two times a week to see if the diatoms are lessened.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Very common for newer tanks. It should settle down after a while.

 

[i3k]

I get brown algae in my fresh water tank and I'm thinking its because of the high temp. I currently have the temperature of 86 degrees because one of the fish had parasites. Ever since the temp. was raised I started having the algae on the walls of the tank. It's not so bad, I just wipe it off every week and the tank looks clean again 8)

 

[i3k]

Also, I heard that if your tank is close to the window and the Sun light hits the tank a lot, you will get algae. Not sure if about brown algae but sun light makes the green algae multiply