hopefully averted a crisis??

[sharuq1]

I was doing some research today trying to learn about caulerpa going sexual as my whatever it is caulerpa looks odd today. I am not sure of the scientific name of it, as so many sites seem to have misclassified it and don't agree on a name. It looks alot like grape, but it isn't.

When it first grows it kind of looks like little flat-ish discs on a stalk, and these discs eventually balloon out. Anyway, I looked into my tank and I saw the tops look varigated and a bit whitish. I am thinking bad sign. Then after the site gazing-- I looked close and there are..oh crap...the little claw-looking things that a site said were a precursor to going sexual (something to do with gametes). The site warned if I saw those things to pull the caulerpa out immediately and had a pic below it showing the ruins of a cloudy tank in the aftermath.

I pulled all of it that I could see out. A few pieces did fall off and disappear into the tank though... :S Do you think things will be ok? I am guessing it will still grow back from what root structures are left.... Any advice here? I run a bit of floss, a bag of carbon (changed weekly), phosguard and purigen, fyi. (need to change the purigen asap though, it looks brownish yellow)