Went BB.. Algae all gone...now what?

[GRREEF]

I started my current 55 rebuild as a barebottom. Never done that before. Its been up about a month. I had the typical diatom bloom. 15 Mexican turbos and a few astera kept it check. Never really got too bad. one rock would build up a film, the army would move in and it would be spotless again.

Fast forward

Diatom bloom ended 4 days ago. There is nothing. NOTHING. I've never had no algae before. These guys look hungry. I put a Nori sheet in and a couple of them ate it up. So what do I do? Do I have too many turbos? Should a drop a few into the fuge? --I have some algae there, but even that is disappearing.

Or is this a good thing? I hate to see the snails starve. :headwalls:

 

[peppie]

Take them to LFS for credit.
I have had a BB 85gal AIO close to algae free for 4 mo. My clean up crew is less than what I had in a 20gal aio with sand. I suppose a lot of it depends on how many fish, feeding, skimmer, fuge.
IMO you can reduce your CC