Perfect. That selection of minor growth, you want it, you don’t want to try and starve it out that will cause coral bleaching. Those growths are expected, and now manageable down from 75% coverage back to 5% and solely we determine if it remasses. Some of the easy tricks to lessen that grow back are making your lights far bluer than currently running, that much white selects for green algae and haze but with minor upkeep, even all white won’t cause an invaded reef. We all run different primary production levels, we can see in the nuisance algae forum what that looks like. At any point, those entrants can do what you did as well but it’s harder for large tanks. You have no algae problem now because you caused that condition without delay, all threads in the nuisance forum are varying degrees of delay in progress.
uv light is a common effective cheat people use to burn out those growths and prevent grow back, but in a nano direct cleaning is still simple. Be doing strong weekly water changes and removing growths until you stumble upon a lucky prevention arrangement.
that very high quality live rock we trusted to run your whole setup outputs nutrients into the water along with any fish, live rock produces whole waste pellets daily like snails do (the tiny animals within expel waste) so that combined with bright lights and new system is easy formula for work needed. Dont use Gfo, or phos guard, or any nitrate additives, simply do minor direct gardening upkeep. Your tank is ready for a few starter corals :)
not one time does rip cleaning prevent us from having to do work, it’s a skip cycle access technique. Knowing what we now know, no nano reef ever has to entertain an invasion unless we want to. My own fifteen year old nano has had more rip cleans than I can count, it’s how we got to fifteen.
