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What should I tackle first?

Raising PH. Right now it sits at approximately 7.8. The tank is in a basement without easy access to outside air so I was thinking about putting a CO2 scrubber in.

Raising Alk. Alkalinity is pretty stable at 7.6-7.7. I have A4R but I'm not able to consistently manually dose so I'd want to manually dose it.

Raising Nitrate/Phosphate. These are consistently at 0.
 

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Alk and ph are not a real threat to the tanks health. Both are at acceptable levels. Phis and trate are not. Ide start there.
 
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Just noticed these two white spots on the foxface. Doesn't seem like ichc wondering if anyone has any idea what it could be?
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Started dosing NeoNitro and NeoPhos a few days ago. Got my phosphates to 0.06 and nitrates to 0.5. I'm going to continue dosing NeoNitro and see how my phosphates fluctuate over the next few days.

Edit: Tested again (2024-04-10) and we're at 5.8 nitrates and 0.04 phosphates. Definitely seeing more algae on the walls, excited to see if there's any noticeable impact to the corals.
 
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Finally getting my parameters under check. For the longest time my nitrates and phosphates were bottomed out and my alkalinity was on the lower side (~7.4). I purchased a Kamoer X4 to help dose All For Reef and I've been manually dosing Nitrates and Phosphates as needed.

Other than that, the tank has been on auto-pilot. Corals are growing, fish are doing well. I completely wiped out the aiptasia problem (and sourced a new rock of aiptasia for the berghia farm). This is the phase that I struggle what the heck :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
 
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It's been just over a year since I transferred the tank. I've conquered bottomed-out nutrients, bristle worms and aiptasia so far. I'm a little stumped on the low growth so far but it is what it is.

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