Help with Montipora Eating Nudibranches

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So recently all my monti frags in my frag tank died out of no where. Fast forward a few weeks later I moved the frags to my DT and they are still dying. I was trying to frag some on the remains and noticed I had nudibranches. I have a large colony that is attached to a blue ridge coral. I can remove the coral but I would like to do this last if possible. What do I do to get rid of these things? Any help is great
 
Alright so I took out all my current frags and a semi colony. I broke it in half in the process because it was glued to a rock with sps frags on it. Anyway I moved all the frags to a frag tank for now but I haven’t touched the mother colony. There’s 100s of micro brittle stars and I don’t wanna kill them in the process. The nudibranches havent got this colony yet so am I safe as long as I dip and scrape all these frags that were infected? Or do these things spread and live in the rocks? I killed a good 10 or so of them that I could see. When I was dipping the mini colony that was perfectly fine (not yet infested) I Saw nothing come off. There’s just 3 frags that I saw that had them attached
 
First pic is my frag tank and the second one is the mother colony

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I’m too scared I’m going to kill the mother if I try and take it out. Or at least break it into millions of pieces like I did with a 7” frag
 
Get a yellow coris wrasse. I had an infestation and it ate them all. Never dipped or fragged any montis. All mine were large and encrusted. The wrasse saved me
 
Are wrasses invert save? I have mainly sps tank now with some tangs and an eel along with some peppermint shrimp that I don’t know if they exist or not. Haven’t seen them since the day I bought them about a month ago and 2 cleaners. Will the wrasse eat my shrimp
 
I have shrimp (peppermint, coral banded) with a melanurus wrasse and a six line wrasse and they've been fine. There's always a risk and neither of the two wrasses that I have are listed as "Reef Safe" but I've had them both for a while and still have the shrimp and my CUC. The risk here is certainly worth the reward of them mowing down the nudibranchs.
 

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