Nah nothing seemed to generate growth back then.
In the past 5 days since the last big cleanout, the brown algae growth has significantly slowed down (yay). It's hard to say which change caused the sudden slowdown in growth but for future readers it was one of the following (or combination of some/all);
* Increase salinity from 22 to 24
* Reduced the intensity of my lighting from 70% to 50% (and in Radion speak I changed from the AB+ program to 'deep natural reef' which has a much slower ramp up and ramp down)
* Started thoroughly rinsing my frozen food in RO (previously using hikari brand which claims to be low phosphorous, I was filling 1/2 glass of water then syphoning out 90% of the water before adding food and remaining 10% water to the tank)
* Increased the lighting period in my fuge to be 18 hours and run overnight and during the ramp up/ramp down period of the DT lights. Theory being the fuge should be 'copping' the brunt of the algae growth. That said the fuge is also looking pretty clean and free of algae, the chaeto about 50% covered in diatoms
* Maybe just cleaning both the DT and Fuge of heavy algae coverage at the same time, knocked the population out?
In the past 5 days since the last big cleanout, the brown algae growth has significantly slowed down (yay). It's hard to say which change caused the sudden slowdown in growth but for future readers it was one of the following (or combination of some/all);
* Increase salinity from 22 to 24
* Reduced the intensity of my lighting from 70% to 50% (and in Radion speak I changed from the AB+ program to 'deep natural reef' which has a much slower ramp up and ramp down)
* Started thoroughly rinsing my frozen food in RO (previously using hikari brand which claims to be low phosphorous, I was filling 1/2 glass of water then syphoning out 90% of the water before adding food and remaining 10% water to the tank)
* Increased the lighting period in my fuge to be 18 hours and run overnight and during the ramp up/ramp down period of the DT lights. Theory being the fuge should be 'copping' the brunt of the algae growth. That said the fuge is also looking pretty clean and free of algae, the chaeto about 50% covered in diatoms
* Maybe just cleaning both the DT and Fuge of heavy algae coverage at the same time, knocked the population out?