Algae problem with carbon filter???

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Back story. Cyano infestation 2 months ago. Removed carbon filter and used chemi-clean with 50% water change. That fixed the issue and it ran fine since then until a week ago I realized I forgot to put the carbon filter back into the media basket. So I did and now started having cyano/algae problem again. So I'm just trying to understand what the carbon filter has anything to do with it. Can anyone shed some light?
 

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Back story. Cyano infestation 2 months ago. Removed carbon filter and used chemi-clean with 50% water change. That fixed the issue and it ran fine since then until a week ago I realized I forgot to put the carbon filter back into the media basket. So I did and now started having cyano/algae problem again. So I'm just trying to understand what the carbon filter has anything to do with it. Can anyone shed some light?
I cannot see a connection. I’ll bet the nuisance algae was already on the comeback before the carbon filter was re onne tec.
 

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