BBA, and co2 and lighting

hello all, I am pretty new here and have been reading a lot of post on bba. I have a 125 gallon tank with eco complete, i have two quad t5ho lights(312watts total). the plants i have are myrios, a couple of swords, three ulvaceus, 4 tiger lotus plants. According to the watts per gallon rule i have 2.5. i also have co2 injection. i do a 50% water change weekly and i also use dry ferts from greenleaf. I was adding ferts daily according to the die schedule but i was getting way to much algae. so i stopped and dose twice a week. on Mondays i add 3/4tsp. of plantex. Wed. i add all the other ferts. Sundays i do the 50% water change. My problem is the bba. i have read that poor water flow can be an issue as well as co2 levels going up and down a lot. i keep the co2/ph at 6.7 that seems to about 30 ppm. Checking the drop checker as it is green. so is it the lighting? I am adding the ferts and co2 so my lighting is not high enough? im going to replace my filter, i am using the eheim pro 3e, and it sucks the flow rate has dropped to crap and i can not get eheim to answer any questions with it since the electronic light just goes up and down and wont inrease the flow anymore. So am i on the right track? Any help would be great thanks mark.

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Comment by mark ruddy on March 1, 2013 at 9:51pm: well i am now running 2 t5ho bulbs in each 36 inch light instead of 4 per side. seems a small difference in just two days. sweet

Comment by mark ruddy on March 4, 2013 at 2:39am: well its been a few days now again. I do notice my lace plants are starting to better and my myrios dont habe the bba near as much, i cut some of my swords out but it is looking much better. I think once i get a new filter that has an actual flow rate as my eheim is junk it will be even better. thanks for all the help...Mark

Comment by mark ruddy on March 6, 2013 at 5:47pm: so an update, i have been running 4 t5ho's instead of the 8. my lace plants are growing like crazy, and no new bba. i also have only been adding plantex. i also only added my other ferts once a week as well.