Brown diatoms : leave or blow off

[swclown]

It's been a while since I've had to deal with this, but I switched tanks not too long ago and I am going through a brown diatom phase. It covers the rocks in a matter of hours after turkey bastering it off. I do this like two or three times and day and it clouds up the water
Should I keep trying to blow it off or just leave it alone and let it run it's course?

[cuongvynguyen]

Leave it alone and get some phosphate obsorber. Phosban is nice for iron based obsorber. An easier package to toss into the high flow area would be phosguard, which is aluminum base and not really meant to stay there for permanently.

[New_Noob]

Dont use the phos remover yet, diatom is normal in new tanks.

[Maxxumless]

Just let them go. Just use quality RO or RO/DI water and they will go away on there own.

[Gargausius]

Get a good cleanup crew. There are a number of on-line vendors that provide good cleanup crews. Check out www.garf.org to maybe get an idea.

[steve68]

it's the cycle u can inprove flow if it gets bad but it will go away