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Didn’t know where to put all this anyways
Parameters
Nitrate 9
Po4 0.12
Calcium-420
Alk-8.6
Mag—1350
To my questions I have some always lawn grass type algae on my rocks it’s about 5 months old like shown all parameters are in check kessil 360x lights running 100% 2 mp40’s on either side running 75% most the day but switching up flow pattern throughout
All fish are healthy and are normal
Corals green planet stylopora strawberry shortcake monti believe red fire and a hammer and toadstool
Second question is that they don’t look too healthy
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third question is that I have a refugium and a skimmer right now the skimmer is acting wonky it’s been with me for 3 years and Recently haven’t dozed anything in about 4 days beside alk it will micro bubble when the water valve is all the way open and air intake have co2 scrubber connected to it. It’s a 200 gallon system
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Besides phos elevated, introducing skim back into system will contribute to this.
are you using RODI water or tap water from the faucet?
Is tank at or near a window?
 

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Rodi water and yes but blinds are shut
As suspected, the power of UV will penetrate blinds-shades -curtains. You will need to block side that faces window with black construction paper from Walmart and reduce white light intensity from your lights and add snails such as:
Astrea
Turbo grazer
Cerith
Nerite
Trochus

pencil urchin
 
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As suspected, the power of UV will penetrate blinds-shades -curtains. You will need to block side that faces window with black construction paper from Walmart and reduce white light intensity from your lights and add snails such as:
Astrea
Turbo grazer
Cerith
Nerite
Trochus

pencil urchin
Can’t do anything about the window but I’m working on getting a quarantine setup for inverts
 

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