terrible algae bloom

this pretty much formed over night, I'm guessing it's just the standard brown algae? I was wondering if there are any ways to get rid of it because it looks awful, or do I just have to let my CUC eventually consume it all?

 

Is this a new tank? if so, how old?

 

those look like diatoms.

Edit: beat me to it skurious

 

yes, it's been been setup for about a month 1/2, just finished the water cycle.

 

yea that seems normal to me. what kind of CUC do you have in the tank?

 

unfortunately a normal process. -_-
I have 5 or 6 scarlet/stripped hermits(med.) and a few snails that really don't help the glass. I'm still adding to the CUC I just had to wait for the cycle to finish.

 

yea that compleatly normal a good way to combat that is to reduce the light cycle by about 4+ hours or turn them off for a few days. you can also wait it out they will go away as the cycle finishes.

Good luck to ya ;D

 

sweet thank you so much, I'm going to reduce the light cycle by a few hours and see how that goes