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Just do a large water change with matching salinity/temp and siphon out the sand... either rinse the sand in tap forever until clear or add new sand. You can do this in multiple water changes if that is what it takes to get the sand out.
Manually remove what algae you can, add some CUC and some female emerald crabs for the bubble algae.
Fixing this problem is pretty easy in smaller tanks.
I see no reason to start over... if you started with new acid washed rock... you would just reset yourself back to the ugly phases where most get algae anyways.
Just to clarify, when you say siphon out the sand, do you mean physically remove the sand and replace it, or just remove detritus from the sand?
I think on my initial go with this tank I went way overboard with trying to micromanage everything. I was dosing carbon, and i essentially scrubbed all nutrients from my tank, had zero algae, but my corals were struggling. Then i stopped dosing and things started to rebound, but i got freaked out by having some algae in the tank and started dosing again.
It's a shame because i did have some corals that were doing well. Had a beautiful gold torch coral that was thriving. Mushrooms are either really hardy or I had a good setup for them cause they were growing like crazy. I was never able to grow acros though, they bleached out and died within days, same with my scolys, they kept receeding. When i couldn't grow acros I just kinda gave up and let the tank go to crap.
I think I need a more simple approach this time.