Corals Not Opening, Dinos and GHA

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My tank (29g) has been setup for about 2 months now after my tank had an alkalinity crash and I lost most of my fish and CuC. My corals had survived though, which meant I had to put corals and RFA in an immature tank. About 2 weeks ago, my RFA died as well as my xenia and Kenya tree, two corals which have a reputation for being unkillable. My zoas are not opening at all and GHA is starting to grow over some of my corals and my other corals aren't extending as much. I also have to deal with dinos and diatoms. There is also a large outbreak of Cyano that I had just siphoned out before taking the picture but it'll likely be back within a few hours.
Params (Hanna and Salifert)
NO3: 8.5
PO4 0.06
ALK 9.4
Cal 420
Ph 8.3
Salinity 1.024
Temp 81.5
Mag 1260
My RODI water also reads between 0-3 TDS.

I lost a clown and a few CuC the other day and I wasn't able to pinpoint the cause.

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I've been performing smaller incremental water changes over the past week or so and I've been scraping the glass and blowing cyano/diatoms/algae off of the skimmer and filter but it usually returns within hours
 
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