Welcome to hair algae/bryopsis hell. It's quite crowded down here as you can see. Tremble in fear as this scourge takes over your entire tank. You'll be the embarrassment of all your aquaria friends.
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Seriously, my stuff looked exactly like that. When the algae gets longer, it will begin to feather out. It eventually took over everything. I could write a book on the problems I've had with this crap.
I replaced my sump with a refugium/sump setup. The algae began to die almost immediately. It's only been 6 days since the refuge started running and the bryopsis ain't quite dead. It still covers most of my rockwork, but at least it looks like it's no longer thriving.
Time will tell.
As for your problem, if you think the algae started with the bulbs, ditch them. Go with a special bulb that is more true to the blue end of the spectrum. I have no idea were to find a bulb like that.
Good Luck



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Welcome to hair algae/bryopsis hell. It's quite crowded down here as you can see. Tremble in fear as this scourge takes over your entire tank. You'll be the embarrassment of all your aquaria friends. 

,i used regular "#0"cc sand from my lfs to make a 7-8 inch bed in my refugium(the same stuff for a 4" bed in the display -120)
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