nutrient deficiency

My tank is getting overrun with what I believe to be dinoflagellates. I know small/new tank syndrome is probably part of it, but is there any way to get rid of it? I heard that raising nitrates and phosphates could help, but that’s a scary idea to me as I have some sensitive animals in the tank...

Hi! My tank is almost 1 year old and I'm having some trouble with zoas size. I have a post for it here. I like big polyps and "fluffy" colonies, but mine are spreading out and small. My params are: Lighting: Nour by OceanTech (brazilian brand), I was running it really high, 90% blues with a...

I have been carbon dosing my tank to lower my nitrate levels and would test phosphate with the API tester which I leant for all intents and purposes is useless so I bought the salifert phosphate kit and it is showing 0 phosphates. It seems like my nitrates are not going down anymore and I think...

I'm dealing with a nutrient deficiency in my tank and have resorted to daily dosing 2ppm worth of nitrate (with potassium nitrate) and dosing 0.2ppm worth of phosphate (with potassium phosphate), daily. It's 500L of water volume and I'm adding 2g of kno3 and 0.2g of kpho3. I'm adding them dry...