Algae Burst

I'm actually not too concerned about it... seeing as my tank is fairly new and from what I understand this is common and it'll go away on its own.

However, just wanted to make sure that this is the kind of algae that I have is ok algae. I went out and got just a regular humdrum Mystery snail, and my Rhino Pleco has made a dent at it.

I know that I could clean it out, and I have Algae Control, but I'm very against to adding chemicals. I want it to get better on it's own in a semI natural way.
I was thinking that when time comes up to do a water change and it's not under control all clean up a bit...

Here's some pictures. Let me know if I should actually be concerned. THANKS

 

yupp just diatoms no need to worry.

 

Yup, that looks like Diatoms and you understand correctly that it's common in newly cycled tanks. No worries. Will go away on its own in time. You can wipe some of it away before a water change and have patience.

Personally, I'd throw that algae chemical away. It doesn't fix the problem. Getting to the root cause is the key for algae.. In a non-planted tank it's lights on for 4-6 hours a day, no direct sunlight, keeping up on regular water changes, not over feeding and weekly or biweekly substrate vacs if you have gravel.

 

Yes. It does get sunlight from the window. It's not direct though. And I guess some days I have left the light on later into the evening making it more like 10 hours of light. :/

That's what I figured about the chemical. Fortuanetly I didn't buy it, it was given to me. PHEW. No money wasted on MY part. lol.

I've been on schedule with the water changes. I have rocks as the substrate, no gravel.

I heard that if I start growing some plants that the plants will take the nutrients needed from the algae and will help with that.

 

Yes plants help but it also depends on your lighting.

Low light = slow nutrient uptake