fishmama67
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Nope it didn't. I'll figure it out yet!
RO water wil still have phosphates unless your using a De-ionizer. I recently had a HUGE hair algae burst because of a newly cycled tank. It will eventually suck up all the nutrients from the water and stable out (unless you have a big bio-load) but I hooked up a phos reactor 2 days ago and it is receding like my hair line...quickly. I highly suggest using one unless you have a big enough fuge or turf scrubber (which can both be bulky and bothersome). just my 2 cents.
Also cut off the lights for 3 days (so I've heard). Sounds risky but I hear people get great results.
Does anyone know if the size grain of substrate or type of substrate is a contribiting factor to cyanobacteria growth. Mine is finer than sugar. Storebought sand from petco. I don't know if substrates can contain silicates