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All the parameters are good, there is a few montipora eating nudibranch and I touched it trying to siphon them out. The parameters are nitrates zero, ammonia zero, alk 5.3, cal 400, MG 1360, ph 8.1 and temp is at eighty and salinity is 1.024-1.026Something is very off in your tank
Have you checked your parameters, if so list them, temp, salinity
All the parameters are good, there is a few montipora eating nudibranch and I touched it trying to siphon them out. The parameters are nitrates zero, ammonia zero, alk 5.3, cal 400, MG 1360, ph 8.1 and temp is at eighty and salinity is 1.024-1.026
Sorry but there’s a lot wrong there.
1) Monti eating nudis are going to threaten the health of that coral until they are eradicated.
2) Alk is low as well. Get it up to 7.5 over the span of two weeks. Are you dosing daily or supplementing parameters with water changes?
3) You need to measure your salinity with a reliable tool. Hydrometers are notoriously inconsistent FYI.
4) Nitrates need to be at least detectable. I preferably keep them between 2-4ppm.
Growing any algae is fine in a refugium. It doing its job well with your numbers.
Well you can raise your nitrates and phosphates by removing some hair algae from the sump. Just be careful not to disturb the area too much.
You’re going to have to keep parameters stable if you’re only monitoring it once a week. A doser would work.
As far as the nudis. Well you can dip your montis in Bayer every other week to give them relief or introduce a Wrasse that may or may not hunt for them (yellow coris wrasse). I say this because I assume running a qt tank is out of the question since you only monitor the tank once a week
Adding top off water to minimize salinity fluctuation is also an issue.