I have a new 5gal tank and I'm starting to see quite a bit of algae. It's brown and it grows in patches on the tank walls and both the live plant and the fake plants, and it's growing fast. It looks terrible. Anything I can do about it, other than try to keep up with scraping it off?
Tank is 5 gal hex tank, fishless cycled and stocked 2-3 weeks ago with 2 guppies and 4-5 stems of anacharis. Lighting is one 10W/6500K compact florescent bulb, on about 10-11hrs/day. I've been testing regularly since I stocked-- ammonia has been 0 save one jump up to .25 which could have been a testing error, nitrites always 0, and nitrates haven't gone over 5. Weekly ~40% PWCs. If I left out any important details let me know.
TIA
Tank is 5 gal hex tank, fishless cycled and stocked 2-3 weeks ago with 2 guppies and 4-5 stems of anacharis. Lighting is one 10W/6500K compact florescent bulb, on about 10-11hrs/day. I've been testing regularly since I stocked-- ammonia has been 0 save one jump up to .25 which could have been a testing error, nitrites always 0, and nitrates haven't gone over 5. Weekly ~40% PWCs. If I left out any important details let me know.
TIA