Heading out to my holiday vacation but , I ended up getting rid of a fair amount of bubble algae. Still awaiting my replacement parts / wireless vortech controller , new pump for my skimmer etc. So all the soot etc is still fairly bad. I ended up putting everything in my sump and ( turning off the water supply of course ) turning the heat to 96 for 24 hours and 3 days without light . by that time most of the bubbles were alot softer and just "falling" off.. Unfortunately there was a down side. 1 is I have pulled a gallon and a half of bubbles from the bottom of my tank once the rock was back in .
and i still cant get them all , secondly some live rock had broken off and made its way to my return pump and its causing issues .
Tank is still overly dirty but I think after the equipment comes , a nice cleaning of the glass and a hearty water change I should be ok.
( mr. wiggles going for a swim )
glub glub