Brown Diatom Algae
I had a brown Diatom algae bloom near the end of my tank's cycle. A week or so before it broke out my T12 lights failed and I bought new T5 HO lights. Talked to the LFS and they advised to reduce the amount of time the lights were on (I had them on about 14 hours/day). He also suggested a couple Bristle Nose Plecos - those guys cleared a ton in just one day. Of course, I did manual cleaning with WC. Later, after reading some articles, I bought a trio of Otocilclus Catfish (the little sucker mouths with the stripe someone up-thread mentioned). Both the Oto cats and BN eat off the plants as well as rocks, slate, glass. Need some of those snails next trip to the LFS.