I added 6 fish to my tank and it broke out in algae

[Gsxkid]

I’m thinking the addition of the 6 fish is what caused it but I can’t get it to clear and it’s ruining my coral. Any advice here?

 

[Gsxkid]

Nitrate isn’t detectable but my phosphate is .25

 

[FishieBusiness]

Your Po4 level is fine. Dont think that is a problem

 

[Owen386]

Like all @ once? What size tank? What's your filtration look like? Lights?

 

[jah-hoeva]

What kind of algae?

 

[absolutecarrot]

What size tank

 

[this is me]

You need to be more elaborate if you want to get any meaningful advice.
Adding 6 chromis in a 300gallons is quite different than adding 6 tangs in a 50gallons.

 

[Gsxkid]

I’m sorry should of gave more info my bad. 3 clowns a six line wrasse and 2 dotty backs it’s roughly 160 gallons total volume. It was over the course of 2 weeks I probably went to aggressive in hindsight. Looks like diatoms anyway to get it to back down or do I just ride it out? I’m assuming the addition of the fish through off the balance of my tank. Anything I can do here or just keep waiting.

 

[CAPSLOCK]

How new is the tank? It might just be normal "maturing tank" algae blooms.

Those smaller fish in a large volume shouldn't cause algae. It's not much different than adding one bigger tang.

 

[Gsxkid]

The tank is around 7-8 months still relatively new but I already went through all the algae phases.

 

[Gsxkid]

The issue I’m having is the algae grows on my corals overnight and causes some not to open.

 

[Gsxkid]

Pretty heartbreaking everything was doing so well