New Setup LiveSand

[iantower]

Well I added 60lbs of LiveSand from Coralife to my new tank and allowed it to settle and a thick layer of chunky brown stuff deposited on the entire surface of the sand and some remained suspended and it foamed in the water and the foam is brown to.
Anyone come across this when putting in new live sand?
Cheers!

 

[fishit]

ya no worries it will go away

 

[teebone110]

"Growing" pains!

It should go away.

 

[Cal_stir]

diatoms, part of the cycle, it will go away.
don't add too much live stuff at once, or you will get nasty blooms of all kinds of things.

 

[iantower]

Thanks guys but this isnt that kind of  brown stuff this stuff came right after I added the live sand and it settled out with this chunky brown stuff... no worries though just sucked it out... hadnt seen it before though with other setups
Cheers!

 

[Fraggle Rock]

Carib Sea Pacific Black Reef Substrate did the same thing to me no worries.