Brown Algae: the first presence of life in your water

Within the first week that I had set up my plants my tank started developing brown algae everywhere. I found out that this type of algae is called Diatom Algae, attached to this name is a link which takes you to a useful site for help on problems you might occur and advice called TheKrib.
It is recommended by everyone to get Otocinclus (suckermouth) catfish to solve this problem. In about one day they cleaned it all up and were really well fed and happy.