Ky's Nuvo 30 Build

Ok so i have been fighting algae for a while now and i believe I am winning but I can't get rid of that last little bit.
I have been feeding the fish every other day and feeding the corals with Reef Energy every 4 days. I have been running chaeto in the fuge and running a GFO reactor for about a month now. I have also been running SeaGel in a filter bag under the chaeto on one of the overflows and changing it out every two weeks to make sure it isn't leaching PO4 back into the water.
NO3 - 0
PO4 - .01
The large cyano growth has all died off but there is still a few places in the tank where the cyano is still living. It is still located on a few of the zoa frags on the upper part of the tank and in one central location in a lower flow area at the top of the tank. I say lower flow but the flow in there is still really nice with the new WP-10 which I finally got set how I like it. I am also getting the brown dusty hair algae on the sand and back wall now.
The only two other things I can think of that are causing the algae growth are either residual nutrients from algae die off or photoperiod is too long. What do you guys think?
I changed my lighting schedule to this just in case. What do you guys think of the lighting schedule?
1 - 11:30 - whites 0% - blues 1%
2 - 1:00 - whites 0% - blues 35%
3 - 3:00 - whites 80% - blues 100%
4 - 6:00 - whites 50% - blues 100%
5 - 8:00 - whites 0% - blues 40%
6 - 9:30 - whites 0% - blues 1%

 

Against my better judgement I went ahead and purchased another frag. The guy at the LFS said it was a piece of rainbow monti. For $5 I was willing to gamble and see what colors this guy would produce.

 

Also found 2 of these guys crawling around. Based on some searches it looks like this could be a stomatella snail. I only see them eating algae from the rocks so looks like another member to the clean up crew

 

While I'm at it might as well throw up a current FTS.

 

Here is an update on the favia coral I have been nursing back to health. 1st pic is when I added it to the tank on 4-28-14 and the second pic is a current shot 6-23-14. Looks like it will make it. The colors are still coming back and it looks like it has potential. Can't wait to see what this coral has to offer.

 

wow! great job on the coral comeback!

 

Thanks! It is very slow progress. I thought people were kidding when they said it takes a year for a coral to reach full recovery. But at the rate it's going I bet it will take a year. Luckily it is growing at the same time and spreading to the rock below it. Can't wait to see how this guy turns out

 

It looks really cool. I like the colors that are coming out of it.

 

Thanks.

Time for a small update. I don't have pictures right now (I know, I forgot to take them...). This past week I noticed that the place I was pouring the dosing chemicals didn't have enough flow and some of the carbonate was precipitating in that chamber. I started dosing into a high flow portion of the rear chamber and this made a huge difference. So much difference, that me making that simple change caused a small overdose. The entire tank fogged up due to the overdose. I stopped dosing for a couple days and did a 20% water change. The tank has now cleared up and I'll be testing/dosing again tonight.

I was also finally able to get the phosphates down to 0. All the cyano in the tank has died and dissappeared YAY! But then my reactor stopped working I have the IM mid size reactor and Amazon will be reffunding me for it. Does anyone have a suggestion for a replacement reactor? Should I go with the IM reactor again and hope I just got a lemon the first time?

The corals seem to be doing ok. I'm hoping I didn't strip the water of phosphates too much before realizing I was finally at zero. That coupled with the chemical overdose is probably the reason the tank doesn't look it's best. Hopefully things will level off soon.

 

Well that all sounds normal, nothing too dramatic. Congrats on getting the cyano under control that must feel good. How is your rescued Favia doing?