Hair algae

[allof fish]

I haven’t done a water change in 3 weeks and am finally gonna be able to do so tmr. Tank looks pretty bad right now tons on algae, looks like grass everywhere. Mainly in sand and a good bit on rocks. Sand will be easy to suck up and gonna try to scrub some off water. My question is what’s best way to prevent or limit this algae? I’m starting to get into more sps and acros so would to nice to limit it. Tank is 6 months old so still going thru ugly fazes I assume. Nitrates are 15. Phosphate.07. Any good ideas or just have to deal with it until tank matures more. Pics below.sorry for blue light. Thanks all

 

[Staghorn]

Remove as much manually as possible to start with. Do you have any herbivores in the tank? And you should probably get this sorted out before adding more sps

 

[allof fish]

Remove as much manually as possible to start with. Do you have any herbivores in the tank? And you should probably get this sorted out before adding more sps

I have 2 tangs they do a pretty good job. I’m gonna stop feeding nori and hopefully put them to work more. Clean up crew is a good mix of snails and hermits. I like my nitrates around 10-15 not sure if dropping them a bit will make that big of a difference though. Ideally I would like to get this under control before more sps

 

[Staghorn]

I wouldn’t go too low with the nutrients. Just do as much manual removal as possible.