Tacit Blues
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I have a pretty new tank (45 gallon with live plants, Finnex Planted+ about 20" above the substrate surface, running about 3 hours in the morning and 4 hours in the late afternoon/evening) that I'm starting to experience algae in (I think it's the brown diatom stuff, but I'm hardly an algae expert). From what I've read, it seems that this can sort of be expected in a new tank before the plants really get established, but I am wondering, at what point you decide to do something about it like altering the photoperiod? I just got a bottle of Excel (after a period of confusion with Amazon) and from what I read that is also helpful?