red/brown "algae"?

[Jim Wunderlich]

I Just started up the cycling process on a new tank and added plants
and a few giant danios. The plants:

anubias barteri
anubias nana
anubia coffeefolia
java fern
crinum thaianum

In the past 4-5 days there has a been a bunch of growth of
brownish/deep-reddish looking algae, mostly coating the anubias leaves.
They look like s^&*. The crinums are the least affected, almost none at
all. This is a hard water tank in CA (being prepped for malawi's).

Any advice on what to do? Wait it out? Watch them die? Add something?

THANKS!!!

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[Dustin]

I think I have the same problem.

Do the leaves just look brown? like the plant turned brown, but there is
like little fury growth on the roots ?

What do we do?



"Jim Wunderlich" > wrote in message
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> I Just started up the cycling process on a new tank and added plants
> and a few giant danios. The plants:
>
> anubias barteri
> anubias nana
> anubia coffeefolia
> java fern
> crinum thaianum
>
> In the past 4-5 days there has a been a bunch of growth of
> brownish/deep-reddish looking algae, mostly coating the anubias leaves.
> They look like s^&*. The crinums are the least affected, almost none at
> all. This is a hard water tank in CA (being prepped for malawi's).
>
> Any advice on what to do? Wait it out? Watch them die? Add something?
>
> THANKS!!!
>
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[Dave Millman]

Jim Wunderlich wrote:

> I Just started up the cycling process on a new tank and added plants
> and a few giant danios.

Regarding starting a planted tank right:
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_newtank.htm
http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/plants/randall_Setting%20up.html

Regarding brown stuff:
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Algae/diatom.html
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/Algae/algae-randall.html

The group FAQ:
http://www.thekrib.com/

[Jim Wunderlich]

In article >,
"Dustin" > wrote:

> I think I have the same problem.
>
> Do the leaves just look brown? like the plant turned brown, but there is
> like little fury growth on the roots ?
>
> What do we do?
>
>
>


yes, brown stuff on the leaves with some furry stuff on the rhizomes.
BTW, I have a 40 gallon tank with 40 watts of flourescent, 12 hours per
day. I forgot to mention that!

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