New tank syndrome! Argh!

[mrhasan]

Third week in and I can see hair algae (the brown version). Doing 5 gallon WC (volume around 20 gallon) every 3 days and also dosing prodibio. Got two clowns, 1 lawnmower blenny and a cleaner in there right now. Skimmer seems to have broken in but still not pulling out nasty stuffs apart from suspended things. I did overfeed the tank while trying to get the clowns to eat but have been doing water change ever since. Nitrate reads below 1 and phosphate reads below 0.1. Not really sure how this got in (probably through the LR) and how it is feeding on nutrient (got a pretty powerful skimmer and the skimmer isin't pulling much out so there's not a whole lot of organic floating around the tank). I have never got hair algae (got almost every other algae but not hair) in previous tank. Oh well, I will just have to let it run out of its course. Pretty upset since I started of with all the precautions (LRs were cured for almost 3 weeks) but still, the hair algae somehow found its way in. BTW these are brown hair algae right? There no bubbles coming out so pretty sure they are not dinos.