When I bleach out my barrels it loosens the algae and bleaches it at the same time, so I end up with lots of little pieces of bleached white algae floating round in the barrels. I cannot use the water in my barrels until I've flushed them out and refilled them.
Does this not happen in your tank slap bash? Or do you bleach your tank as a matter of course and before the algae starts to show?