fish food accident

So my wife knocked about half a container of fish flakes into my tank. I'm wondering if I should siphon them out or just do a water change. I tried scooping but they fall apart

 

I would siphon out what hasn't been eaten and the itty bits just leave for your CUC. What's your params and make sure nothing spikes.

 

I been having an algae problem so I only been feeding once a day very little and I plan on adding to my clean up crew cuz its not cutting it may invest in an urchin

 

Blue tuxedo is what I would recommend. Very hardy and mow down everything. I have a variety of snails and I stick to mainly dwarf zebra hermits as I've seen them eat hair and bubble algea but your milage may very. Torchus, margarita, ceriths and 2 fighting conches are my main arsenal. I have a few dead spots on my sand bed but, my rocks I generally clean.

 

It couldn't hurt to do a water change after getting as much as you can manually

 

I siphoned 8 gallons most of my sand bed gonna do another water change this week