I battled hair algae for over 1 year, did the manual scrubbing thing, water changes, and lots of clean up crew. I won the battle by adding a algae scrubber.
I bought a couple of parts from Fish Tank Direct.
https://fishtanksdirect.com/fish-tanks/fish-tanks-by-brand/red-sea-aquariums/red-sea-reefer-replacement-parts/red-sea-reefer-classic-series-replacement-parts/reefer-250-parts/
Following alone. I also cannot seem to figure out how much Kalk and when to add more kalk to a reactor. I just went the cheap way and mix up a maximum saturation point of 2 teaspoons per gallon into a 5-gallon container and dose 2800ML per day. My Alk is around 8.8 give or take with a PH of 8.4-8.6
My Aquamaxx HOB with protein skimmer dumped about 4-5 gallons of water on the floor. Cheato grew and got stuck on the return part and the pump just kept going and started overfilling the HOB. Cheato seems to break up and stops the flow. I have switched to a HOB algae scrubber to control the levels and it seems to work SOOO much better.
Thanks for the link. I keep my maxi mini and rock flowers in the same tank, they seem fine for the last 1 year. Don't know if I would add my bubble tips to the same tank??
I have been testing a 12 volt LiPePO4 40amp battery connected to a Reef Boxx from Puddle to my Gyre pump so keep the water moving incase of a power outage. It will switch over from full power to the battery backup in-case of a power outage.