What is this?

[j0hnh0lmes]

I have it growing on all my plants. Is that algae?

[Cliff]

looks like diatoms ( I think I spelled it right)

Its natural for newer cycled tanks. I got it about 1 to 2 months after the tank was cycles and most of it went away after two months.

I got two plecos and they took care of the rest

[j0hnh0lmes]

Weird, it didn't show up until after I started treating the tank for algae.

[Cliff]

Hum..... If you have been treating the tank for algue, I won't think it would be diatoms then.

[j0hnh0lmes]

It still could be. My tank is currently in a bad place (by a window with lots of sun). I need to move it but have to get a tank stand for it first.

[troy]

I'm pretty sure it's not diatoms. Diatoms are more of a brownish color.

[j0hnh0lmes]

What else could it be?

[smaug]

Give us a better pic of that plant.It doesnt look true aquatic.The algae looks like a form of hair algae.

[Algenco]

Give us a better pic of that plant.It doesnt look true aquatic.The algae looks like a form of hair algae.

exactly what I was thinking

[annageckos]

That brownish colored stuff could either be decaying plant parts or diatoms. Diatoms is called brown algea but it is not an algea. They are a unicellular organism that eat silica, thou they also have chlorophyll. I also see something that kind of looks like some type of hair algea.