Tank Entry

im sick of hair algea. i have a 55 gallon reef with mostly softies and a few sps, my water is very very clean no nitrate ammonia. no phosphates, nothing. but there is something fueling the hair algea in my tank. Everything is where its supposed to be. im thinking its the deep sand bed thats fueling it. pictures will follow.

So I had this long, drawn out tank entry for my reef, but moments from posting Internet Explorer decides to crash and wipe out the whole thing. Here's the short replay: I got a 12g aquapod after being out of the hobby for a while, and upgraded it to a 55 gallon tank where I built the stand and canopy myself. After many trades and upgrades it has gone from hang on everything to a sump with a fuge, proper skimmer, and reefkeeper lite controller. It is now a mix of sps, lps and zoas but I'm going to ...

Hey everyone.... just thought I would post this as I don't have too many reefing friends I can share information with. I bought my new lights about a month ago (6x T5's).. basically went from about 40 to 234 watts..
Anyways, my putton polyps were looking pretty nice before, and the first day I had the actinics on, but then started going downhill from there.. (have a pic on my profile)
I have tried moving them down and too the side, and now i am using something to shade some of the light ...

Excuse the pics, gotta play with this camera. Pics are looking "washed out", when I actually turned off half the T5s for this shot

First I didn't get the water testing done, will get those results tonight. Reason didn't get the testing done...

I didn't realize how much I had neglected the small things. I went shopping early Saturday, what I picked up:

1. Replacement filters and resin for RO/DI
2. Reef Putty (don't care for the stuff, but sometimes superglue doesn't cut it)
3. Carbon
4. Nylon bag 4x12
5. Didn't get salt, Jen at FAOIS said it would be onsale in two weeks ...