1 week into cycle, algae blooming (pics) what kind and what life cycle can i expect?

[Pallobi]

so obviously its not the good kind... and to be honest ive used lfully cured live rock in my last 3 tanks and im not sure what to expect from this stuff... any ideas or opinions? im thinken from what ive read so far that it is normal, it will get worse beofre it gets better, but by the end of the cycle, it will burn itself out? any thoughts?





these pics are two days old, there's quite a bit more of it here now...

[sedor]

It will get far worse...diatoms will take over everything and then eventually things will start to clear up.

[Pallobi]

about how long can i expect it to last? anything i can do to help it along?

[Moonstream]

it varies in each tank. Ive had tanks that completly skipped the diatom bloom, and others in which it lasted months.

let it take its course, if it gets really bad do a small water change, and add only CUC until after its done (adding livestock besides them just makes it worse).

[Pallobi]

i have a huge skimmer for the system i have, and i use activated carbon and have that macro algae, perhaps these will help, i will do water changes as well tyvm

[Pallobi]

and i used 80 lbs of live sand... not sure that will even make a difference... the water i used was ro/di from a well fed tap... we are in a very rural area, the water comes straight outta the tap tasty pretty clean, so im assuming the RO/DI'd tap water i used shouldnt be an issue... jus another thought and detail to add