Nutrient Spike!

[GHOSTLY]

So I accidentally overfed yesterday and now today I have a Huge brown hair algae and turf algae tank. Im already getting my water ready but how can I combat this algae and high nutrients (phos and nitrate)

 

[Dcal]

Nopox if you have it at LFS, manual removal will be needed. to save yourself saltwater while dosing nopox use your water change tube and have it siphon water into a filter sock in a bucket or your sump so you can save all the water and take out all the growth. this wont help w nutrients so if you arent any other nitrate/phosphate removal things this wont really help as itll just grow back

 

[Gtinnel]

Exactly how high are your nitrates and phosphates, and what were they before adding too much food? How much did you over feed the tank by? Are we talking added in a little bit too much, or accidentally dropped a whole bottle of food in and left it?

 

[GHOSTLY]

Exactly how high are your nitrates and phosphates, and what were they before adding too much food? How much did you over feed the tank by? Are we talking added in a little bit too much, or accidentally dropped a whole bottle of food in and left it?

Nitrate and phosphate WAS at 5 and 0.004 or something near that. Now Idk as I cant test. When I say accident I mean instead of adding 2 drops of Tigger feast i added 5 or 6 on top of feeding my fish

 

[elorablue]

Nitrate and phosphate WAS at 5 and 0.004 or something near that. Now Idk as I cant test. When I say accident I mean instead of adding 2 drops of Tigger feast i added 5 or 6 on top of feeding my fish

Ya, that didn’t do it.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Ya, that didn’t do it.

That day I fed 5 pellets, the tigger feast, and less than a drop of sps food but I feed that every 2 days so it’s not that. Nothing has changed

 

[LuizW13]

I agree with elorablue, that wasn't much of an overfeed, unless you have some crazy super micro pico tank lol. It was probably a coincidence that the algae is showing up.

Don't panic or overreact, get a Nitrate and Phosphate test and then change your water if you need to.

 

[GHOSTLY]

nitrate is now at 10 and store tested 0.006 I think. Im not panicking but rather I would like my tank stable as I'm picking up my sps next week from a growout tank

 

[Pistondog]

Nitrate at 10ppm, po4 at < 0.1ppm is fine for sps.
Do nothing.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

nitrate is now at 10 and store tested 0.006 I think. Im not panicking but rather I would like my tank stable as I'm picking up my sps next week from a growout tank

The emergency tag on this title disagrees.

The overfeed scenario did not cause this algae. 5 to 10 move in nitrates is not crazy. Do a water change, be happy.

 

[ying yang]

So I accidentally overfed yesterday and now today I have a Huge brown hair algae and turf algae tank. Im already getting my water ready but how can I combat this algae and high nutrients (phos and nitrate)

Im new to saltwater at 7- 8 months in but think that algae was already brewing as overfeeding one day then " A HUGE BROWN HAIR ALGAE AND TURF ALGAE TANK " then the very next day your tank over took by algae ? From adding just over double- treble of the tiger feast drops ?
Im no scientist/ marine biologist but would of thought took longer than one day for food to break down and feed algae then algae grow to epic proportions like impression im getting off your tank in my head from emergency tag and your description.
Maybe picture of tank will help others advise you if you may ?

 

[GHOSTLY]

ok! I blew a lot of it off but it was the very next day after an accidental overfeed. pics soon

Im new to saltwater at 7- 8 months in but think that algae was already brewing as overfeeding one day then " A HUGE BROWN HAIR ALGAE AND TURF ALGAE TANK " then the very next day your tank over took by algae ? From adding just over double- treble of the tiger feast drops ?
Im no scientist/ marine biologist but would of thought took longer than one day for food to break down and feed algae then algae grow to epic proportions like impression im getting off your tank in my head from emergency tag and your description.
Maybe picture of tank will help others advise you if you may ?

 

[GHOSTLY]

Im just scrubbing off some of the algae right now so ill take pics after I get some of it

 

[CanuckReefer]

Gotta ask what size is tank? This kinda matters.... Agree with @elorablue .... no way this caused it in one day....

 

[GHOSTLY]

13.5 evo. Fuge in the back with 12 to 13 hours of light couple times a week, Purigen and phosguard reactor, 10 pds live rock, 1 to 2 inch sandbed, 4 fish with one going away, and 10 hour light cycle

 

[CanuckReefer]

13.5 evo. Fuge in the back with 12 to 13 hours of light couple times a week, Purigen and phosguard reactor, 10 pds live rock, 1 to 2 inch sandbed, 4 fish with one going away, and 10 hour light cycle

We need those pics, before and after. Agree as well with @Pistondog and @Lost in the Sauce on Nitrates and Phos ....in one day something else was festering if its that bad.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Ok, I got rid of most of it but there is still quite a bit. Hard to see but there is a greenish brown bubbly algae on the rocks and zoas. On the sand there is the same treen algae on the glass

 

[GHOSTLY]

Also while we’re at it what soft coral is this

 

[GHOSTLY]

Here. What are those

 

[CanuckReefer]

Here. What are those

I'm thinking either Blue clove polyps, or Blue Sympodium, which I have, its missing a bit of the beige center coloration to be that though imo...another overhead pic would help.