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Our Water Params are almost dead on expect for N&P.
That's a head scratcher for me. I had Nitrate around 5, and Phosphates around .05-.1 when I started tank.
Slowly they rose and won't come down. P was higher but I started using Phosguard (just recently)
I have an Algae Scrubber with Cheato (restarted recently)
MAYBE IF FEED MY FISH TOO MUCH, and 2 Times a Week I Feed Corals Reef Roids, and some Aminos.
I'm not complaining, since I rather feed fish then have to add stuff to bring up N&P.
I need to rewind and read about your Filtration. Especially how you bring down Nitrates.
Maybe the few months you are ahead of me, is predicting my future.
I have a bubble magus curve 7 for a skimmer and a large colony of chaeto in the sump. At the beginning I ran GFO but was able to shut down that reactor about three months ago and haven't used it since. My nitrates have never been over 10, but that was only one time. They used to stay steady at around 4 ppm but then disappeared completely and everything started looking dull. That's when I started dosing NO3 manually when it needed it.
As for feeding, I feed pretty heavy - four times a day. I give them a frozen food mix in the morning, then autofeed Marine S pellets three times throughout the remainder of the day. I put a sheet of nori per day for the tangs and angel. I feed Reef Roids and Reef Chili four nights a week. Other than that I dose acropower, about 2 ml every other day. I don't have a clue if the aminos do anything or not, to be honest. Despite all that food I still need to dose PO4 and NO3 on an irregular basis.