How to clean live rock and shells?

[Harrison Gordon]

Hi,
So I recently went on a vacation and left my lights on for about twice as long as they were supposed to go off. This consequently turned all the shells green and covered my live rock with green hair algae.

Now I have all of that sitting in a bucket, and my tank has some new live rock and sand but no shells, so it looks a little bland. I want to clean the shells of, but I don't want to sit there and scrub every speck off the 40+ shells and rocks.

Is there a method that will not only kill the algae, but remove it too?
How about boiling water and vinegar? Should I bleach, too?

Thanks!

 

[Harrison Gordon]

 

[Harrison Gordon]

UPDATE:
Soaked each shell in vinegar. Now want to put something over to give them a shine, like mineral oil...something reef safe. Also something that might help fend off new algae or make it easy to rub off.

Still haven't done anything with the live rock btw. Not sure if I should just throw it away? Or could it be useful....in my sump--except there's still lots of algae on it.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Scrub them with a bit of peroxide.
Anything you use as a glaze will come off or be covered by corraline algae's.

Best thing to keep algaes of of them is the clean up crew.

It’s r you could be one of the folks who blast the tank with vibrant or algae x. No clue how that works in the long run.

 

[Harrison Gordon]

I like coralline, not the nasty green and brown stuff. Kinda sad, had a whole rainbow of corallines on those shells before the green algae took over--red, purple, blue, yellow, orange, turquoise.