On May 24, 8:45*pm, "Pszemol" wrote:
"Richie" wrote in message

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I recently sort of abandoned my reef tank. The onlything circulating
(and poorly) was a pump. A clown fish was thriving however.

Even the Protein Skimmer was off. Anyway, the fish must of died
because one fine day I saw that the tank was just black, and the
stench was just unbearable.

I cleaned one of the pumps, and put the PS to work. Over several days,
the odor was gone, the water was clear, but there is this brown
feathery algae all over my tank and rocks.

Any ideas of how to remove this stuff without harming the coral algae
underneath? Also, I don't see a single worm, critter, et cetera. Is it
possible this process wiped out the microflora that was seen in the
past? How shoudl I replace them?

So no fish left... Is there any coral left in the tank?
Any cleaning crew? Hermits? Snails? Urchins?

You have tank overloaded with nutrients which fuel algae.
You should start multiple methods of removing nutrients:
harvesting algae mechanically (remove rocks, peel algae off),
introduce hermit crabs, snails, black spine urchin, etc...

And do multiple water changes with fresh sal****er made
with R/O cleaned water.

Laborious and costly process - if you do not have a lot of
corals there it would be probably better to start the tank over...

Here is an article about the battle with greenish hair algae
which might be usefull in your case:http://www.melevsreef.com/gha.html

thanks for the response. I will try that.

What happened to this group? It used to be chock full of activity and
people helping out other people.

Instead it has become a cesspool of zeros to the left of the decimal
point!

Richie