[Travis L. Stevens]

It wouldn't hurt to do a waterchange of a significant proportion. Something in the neighborhood of 20%. Give or take about 10%. I wouldn't add any new livestock of any sorts yet. Your bioload wouldn't be able to properly handle such a hit and would just cause more algae in the long run. Also, the only major way that the algae would really hurt the corals is if they started to grow on the skeleton of a coral and begin to push the tissue back. At the moment, I would just do water changes and pull large clumps out as often as possible while you are gaining knowledge. Focus more on knowledge though, don't spend too much time picking at stuff. Other than that, your livestock should be fine. And though it looks ugle, the algae is actually helping you as long as you manually take out the algae.