monti in trouble?

[suspectcobra]

i recently had a nitrate spike (dropped a large piece of frozen food in the tank after stabbing myself in the finger) and some of corals took a hit, this is a small orange monti frag that lost a lot of its color and now seems to be growing some green algae or something on it, it is not hair algae but almost like a coraline hard algae (if it is algae at all) anyone know what it might be or how to protect the monti from it?

 

[aquaguy24]

Is it an encrusting monti. Coraline algea seems to like dead encrusting montis. For some reason. I had a superman monti that coralline algea loved. In my experience encrusting montiporas are a little harder to keep them monti caps. and digitata. Got to be in the perfect spot.

 

[suspectcobra]

alright thanks for the info, ill try and maybe move it to a new spot or something