Recent Tank move, new sand= New algae explosion?

I recently moved my tank to my new house, half a mile away, and while doing so, I replaced my nasty old sand with new pretty white sand. Same corals, same LR, used most of my exsisting tank water, and used about 25 gallons of new salt water. Luckily, all of my corals survived the move, and my only casulties were two fish, two stars, and a urchin. Because I used all of the same LR and coral, and water, should I expect my new prestine sand to stay white? Or should I expect a new algae breakout? I had my current system set up for 2 years prior to my move, and I had gotten thru all the nasty stages of algae, the GHA, the brown algae on the sandbed, bubble algae, etc...

 

I've recently done the same thing and yep a nice algea outbreak about a week or two after. I wonder if you add in some of your old sand to kind of Seed the new sand, if that would help from a bad outbreak?

 

what sand did you get Texanjordon

some sands contain silicates , which will fuel diatoms and also other algaes
which would explain why a new sand bed in an established set up would not stay white

the established set up may have had very little nutrients but contained minimal algae and algae spores

introduce a new source of elevated nutrients and the algae explodes on that source

Steve

 

I purchased 80 pounds of sand from DFS. I got the Fine Oolite Substrate 40 lb bags Ocean Direct Caribbean Live Sand. This is the only LS I have ever gotten, so there should not be anything bad in it hopefully.

 

nothing bad texanjordon - it is perfectly normal
and will fade once the bacteria re colonise and out compete the algaes
and when silicates are all used up and diatoms fade away

 

Ive been running a bio plastics reactor, and a much better skimmer, hopefully this will help minimize the break out.