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Hi all,
Soooooo I went away 2 weekends ago and had a family member feed my tank. As you can tell by the title. It didn't go well. They overfed my tank pellets they said a small hand full, showing about a quarter size in their palm for 2 days. Mind you I only have 5 fish in a 40gal tank. I typically feed a few (literally 3) pellets every other day and a pinch of flakes every day. (frozen once a week).
I'm now dealing with high nutrients, Everything is creeping up. And algae of all kinds are coming to the party.
I'm doing 10% water changes (5gal) every other day. (I'm only able to do a 5gal bucket at a time), I've added some phosgaurd and changed my chemipure blue pouches (it was time to change them).
Does anyone have any other suggestions? (Other than not having my family feed my tank again...)
I don't mind doing the water changes until things stabilize. I'm testing every day. The algae is still growing so I'm manually pulling and scrapping when I change the water.
My corals are doing medium, the zoas/palys/cloves are closed/partially closed up, the other corals are not showing any signs of decay. My fish seem ok for now as well.
I think the water changes are helping from getting out of control and in time things should settle . . .right? thoughts?
Thanks!
Soooooo I went away 2 weekends ago and had a family member feed my tank. As you can tell by the title. It didn't go well. They overfed my tank pellets they said a small hand full, showing about a quarter size in their palm for 2 days. Mind you I only have 5 fish in a 40gal tank. I typically feed a few (literally 3) pellets every other day and a pinch of flakes every day. (frozen once a week).
I'm now dealing with high nutrients, Everything is creeping up. And algae of all kinds are coming to the party.
I'm doing 10% water changes (5gal) every other day. (I'm only able to do a 5gal bucket at a time), I've added some phosgaurd and changed my chemipure blue pouches (it was time to change them).
Does anyone have any other suggestions? (Other than not having my family feed my tank again...)
I don't mind doing the water changes until things stabilize. I'm testing every day. The algae is still growing so I'm manually pulling and scrapping when I change the water.
My corals are doing medium, the zoas/palys/cloves are closed/partially closed up, the other corals are not showing any signs of decay. My fish seem ok for now as well.
I think the water changes are helping from getting out of control and in time things should settle . . .right? thoughts?
Thanks!