Does dosing 2 part cause increase to algae growth?

[nim6us]

So I've had my tank up for about five months now, just fish only so far as I wanted to let it mature before I started adding corals. Well the time has come and I'm ready to start adding some frags. I started dosing a two part solution, specifically Seachem Reef Fusion. I did this to establish the calc, al, and mag levels needed for corals to thrive. I'm dosing slowly with a goal of 420 calc, 8.5 alk, and 1350 mag. I'm testing every few days but as I say the increase is pretty slow going on all elements.

Before I started dosing my glass was pretty clean it was only maybe once a week I'd need to scrape it down and even then it was nothing heavy. However now it seems like every 2-3 days I have a decent layer of film algae all over the glass. The dosing is the only thing that's changed, so maybe this is a fairly obvious answer, but could that be what's causing my new growth?

I ask because I thought the big 3 where to help coral skeletal growth, I didn't realize it would accelerate nuisance algae.

 

[scott4077]

I've read that different types of algae benefit from calcium.. so dosing would increase your growth of that as well.

 

[mta_morrow]

Are there any fish or corals in your tank?

How long have you had your lights running, and for how long per day?

 

[scott11106]

in my opinion you want to get that slim layer of algae on glass every 2-4 days as that shows there are enough nutrients in the tank. If you have zero algae then things will not grow properly but if your sand starts to show algae buildup then you need to find out what the excess is from.