My tank is a 60gal breeder with a 20gal sump, I’ve had my tank for a little over a year now and I’ve been having a lot of problems with hair algae, bubble algae, and aiptasia. I’ve been manually getting rid of it more times than I can count. I have 2 clownfish, 1 skunk cleaner shrimp, a tiger conch, a few turbos, and 3 pitho crabs (pithos to help with bubble algae). I also put in about 13 berghia nudibranchs in January and haven’t really seen them since, my aiptasia problem hasn’t gotten better. I run my lights on a timer for 9hrs daily, my sump light stays on for 10hrs. All are LED lighting, reef aquarium lights are NICREW 100W each. My salinity level is 1.025, and my water parameters are; high range ph: 8.0, ammonia: 0ppm, nitrate: 40ppm, nitrite: 0ppm
Please help reef tank
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What are your phosphate levels?
You're Nitrate is high and is likely the cause of your algae problems. Nitrates should be between 1-10 ppm. You don't have a huge bio-load so, that's not an issue. What do you you feed, how much and how often? Are you using any additives? Based on your answers, we can come up with a game plan to help.
As for the Berghia, peppermint shrimp have been known to eat them. You could try an Aiptasia Eating Filefish but, they MAY pick at some zoas and LPS.
