Apart from preventing an excess of macro nutrients, I'm struggling to understand the parameters that make a tank good for plants, but not good for algae.
In a planted tank, you will need the macros to be non limiting. This means that they will need to be in excess. Good parameters for plants are stable, non growth limiting nutrients. A thriving and healthy mass of plants in an environment of excess nutrients will keep the algae at bay. Trying to deprive algae by limiting nutrients will adversely affect your plants and make the algae situation worse, because algae can live in a far more limiting environment than your plants.
Everything you do should be to the benefit of your plants, not to the detriment of algae.
Dave.
