Super Bad Bubble Algae outbreak

I went on vacation for 9 days and had a neighbor feeding my fish a predetermined amount of food each day. Upon my return, the entire tank is fulled with green bubble algae all over the glass, sand and growing vertically off of the rocks. What is the best way to get rid of this stuff. I plan on doing a manual scrub down of the rocks and tank and syphon the sand and doing a 50% water change. Any advice would be helpful....my poor fish.

 

What size is your tank and what are your parameters? If you dont have corals i would do a complete blackout. Scrubbing the rocks in old tank water would be good and rinse in clean salt water(for bacteria purposes), or fresh ro/di water. Or get a couple true green emerald crabs to aid you. I suggest when the algae goes away try and catch them and put them in the fuge. If you have corals i would do a 3 day blackout depending on the type of corals you have. But thats my opinion.


I'm strong to the finish cause I eats me spinach. I'm ReefBruh the reefing man. Toot Toot.

 

Take a 3 pronged attack
Yellow Tang/Foxface
Manual Removal
Refugium
The third one saved me from my HUGE outbreak. Don't pop the bubbles when you pull them, apperantly thats how they spread.
Good Luck!

 

Emerald crab, always worked well for me.

Also just manually remove as much as you can by hand. Turn off all the flow, give them time to settle out to the bottom and siphon out.

Cut back on any nutrients you are adding, because bubble algae needs that first and foremost to grow and spread.

 

Can you take a picture of this algae. From what you are describing it could be something different from the bubble algae we are used to seeing. I don't think I have ever seen true bubble algae attached to the glass but its possible.

 

It could be attached to coralline on the glass, mine did that.

 

hmm... agree we get a pic. Bubble algae dosn't typically spread that fast and does not generally grow that way, but there are a number of species of bubble algae. It almost sounds more like grape caulerpa though.

 

Here is a really good video

YouTube - ‪4 Ways to Remove Bubble Algae From Your Reef Tank‬‏

Thank you Mark

 

this works well and though it seems tedious it dont take that long i used a ball point pen carcus (just the outside of a old bic) and some tubeing dont forget to shut the pumps off

that guy realy has alot of great vidios

 

for sure i subcrided to his email so that i know when all of his new videos come out im addicted lmao