I don't have an official algae filter, but my 150g, the tank with the bubble algae, has a whole lot of Halimeda growing in the tank which keeps the water crystal clear, and the rocks are fairly clean, but there is the bubble algae.
I did leave the skimmer off for a good while at first, since that's what worked the first time I had dinos, and I even tried dosing nitrate, but it didn't seem to work this time. The extra challenge is that tank also has lots of hair algae, which is generally treated by lowering nutrients, and I have not been successful at lowering and raising them at the same time. I have been dosing Vibrant for a while, and that is slowly cutting down the amount of both types of algae.