Be good then(LOL) You know, I had the same trouble as you are having before and it won. I took down my whole tank around Feb and went back to fresh. I just set it up salt again in August. No matter what I did, I couldn't get rid of the algae and I couldn't stand seeing my tank like that. I did everything wrong from using regular tap water and using a wet/dry loaded with bio-balls. I tested the water coming right out of my tap that I was using and the nitrates didn't even read on my chart and it went up to 160ppm! I figured my rocks were so saturated in nitrates and phosphates, that I took it down and threw the rocks in the yard. 6 months later, I put some of those same rocks back in (which were now base rocks) and ordered some new ones to seed them and also got a few from my friends tank to do the same and so far, things seem to be going great. Now I''m not saying for you to do the samething, but maybe you can find out from some others more experienced than I am, if "cooking" your rock would be an option or like you said, just let it run i's course. Sometimes IMO, starting over, just seems like the best thing especially after learning things you wished you knew before. This way, you have the chance to do everything right and starting fresh may be a way for you to go...I'd wait to see what the others think of t that first though...I'm still learning here myself...