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Ok so I'll try my best to give you my advice. If it's possible get a full tank shot with equipment
I would just put a hold on what your doing there with phyto and pods, the reef chili ect except feeding your fish. The pods will be there no matter what, I double dose interceptor every year just as a precaution to any harmful crustaceans. The pods always come back and flourish especially without a predator. Get in a 40 percent water change with a handful more of snails and hermits. By the look of that daylight photo, it doesn't really seem to look that bad to me. Corals look a bit upset. The nasty clumpy sand I would scoop out. Possibly beef up your mechanical filtration like filter floss or socks.
Even though your phosphates and nitrates are low as a test result doesn't mean you don't have high levels of dissolved organics. Ex, I can dump in a whole pack of fish food, and that can linger in my tank for hours before it shows up on a test result. But then in that amount of time, my skimmer could be pulling all of that junk out. Now if this were to happen everyday, your corals are exposed to high levels of organics that you would never no about because of a test result. So its important to cut down on feedings especially in a time of having algae issues.
Other then that, algae will continue to grow untill coralline covers the rock. Witch is in turn, a predator Just like hermits and snails. Definitely need to reup on some of them and pull the little guys you have out of jail lol. Not saying these critters aren't optimistic, but overall they don't eat coral. What your most likely seeing is them step and cause havoc all over your corals, but unless the corals are dieng, they are most likely just cleaning up the job . Witch is perfectly fine. My hermits live and sleep on all almost all types of coral colonys in my tank.
You'll need to introduce some coralline algae whether its scraping it off a purple snail shell, or grinding some up from the local pet shop. Once that stuff takes hold, you'll rarely see algae outburst unless it were to die. Considering your dosing Triton, coraline algae will flourish
I would just put a hold on what your doing there with phyto and pods, the reef chili ect except feeding your fish. The pods will be there no matter what, I double dose interceptor every year just as a precaution to any harmful crustaceans. The pods always come back and flourish especially without a predator. Get in a 40 percent water change with a handful more of snails and hermits. By the look of that daylight photo, it doesn't really seem to look that bad to me. Corals look a bit upset. The nasty clumpy sand I would scoop out. Possibly beef up your mechanical filtration like filter floss or socks.
Even though your phosphates and nitrates are low as a test result doesn't mean you don't have high levels of dissolved organics. Ex, I can dump in a whole pack of fish food, and that can linger in my tank for hours before it shows up on a test result. But then in that amount of time, my skimmer could be pulling all of that junk out. Now if this were to happen everyday, your corals are exposed to high levels of organics that you would never no about because of a test result. So its important to cut down on feedings especially in a time of having algae issues.
Other then that, algae will continue to grow untill coralline covers the rock. Witch is in turn, a predator Just like hermits and snails. Definitely need to reup on some of them and pull the little guys you have out of jail lol. Not saying these critters aren't optimistic, but overall they don't eat coral. What your most likely seeing is them step and cause havoc all over your corals, but unless the corals are dieng, they are most likely just cleaning up the job . Witch is perfectly fine. My hermits live and sleep on all almost all types of coral colonys in my tank.
You'll need to introduce some coralline algae whether its scraping it off a purple snail shell, or grinding some up from the local pet shop. Once that stuff takes hold, you'll rarely see algae outburst unless it were to die. Considering your dosing Triton, coraline algae will flourish
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