Hair algae explosion after lowering nutrients??

[sanzz18]

So I used reef flux to get rid of turf algae months ago, worked perfectly. I let my nutrients get to, at the highest, 0.78 for po4 and 38 no3 after the treatment. It was recommended to me by a few reefers to let my tank do its thing and stop chasing parameters because every sps frag I tried kept dying. That whole situation go out of control.

I started noticing small patches of gha showing up but nothing significant. I knew immediately I had to lower my nutrients due to disaster inbound lol. Over the course of almost 2 months, I very slowly lowered my po4 to 0.12 and no3 to 10-12. In the process I noticed the hair algae exponentially taking off.

Was the acceleration of the gha due to me lowering my nutrients and maybe upsetting the balance or do you think it was pretty much in motion already/not related to lowering nutrients?

Either way, I am keeping my parameters now mostly where they are, maybe a tad bit lower. My reefcleaners order arrived today too because my cuc had dwindled down and bought a ton of blue leg hermits/astrea snails/emeralds.

 

[sanzz18]

I wish my tank looked that clean.

It definitely is just because the picture is showing a 6ft tank, hard to see the details. My sand has cyano, rocks look like trash lol.

Yeah that's not that bad. Just manually remove what you can and do water changes.

Trying, manual removal is a pain.

 

[exnisstech]

It definitely is just because the picture is showing a 6ft tank, hard to see the details. My sand has cyano, rocks look like trash lol.

No seriously, I have a 6ft tank and I wish it was that clean.

 

[Jared Bryant]

It definitely is just because the picture is showing a 6ft tank, hard to see the details. My sand has cyano, rocks look like trash lol.



Trying, manual removal is a pain.

Yeah it's tough at the start but eventually you will win. Weekly routine just grab a beer and some good music and in no time it's done.

 

[brandon429]

That's a large tank for sure, not easy to deep clean


And the pics look great, can't see algae meaning you're starting early, nice

The sandbed isn't packed with waste and there's not a ton of fish commanding lots of tank resource and waste, it looks sharp so far.