I have a 5 week old 55 gallon temporary sump/fuge that I have set up with some live sand that ran for two weeks with 4 each 54 watt T5's. I have a pump with some filter pad on the intake which took out the haze of the live sand floating around and now acts as a power head for flow. After the dust settled I added a small skimmer which has been pulling off skimmate. After another 2 weeks I started to see brown algae forming on the sand and glass. I added Chaeto after one week of brown algae and it has now doubled in size and it looks like the 1st nitrogen cycle has ended. I added three turbo snails and the brown algae is slowly disapearing, but now I see some grean hair algae forming from the chaeto it appears.
I am hoping to use this set up to speed up and ease the cycling of my 75 when I finally get it up and going. Has anybody done this before? Should I do anything different to increase my success at starting a new tank to decrease new breakin problems?
Also, what do I do about the green hair algae? Cut it out or let it go?
new setup starting with fuge
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