Little back story- I started in this hobby with a 5 gallon tall eclipse aio and had so much success with it I decided to upgrade. I wish I hadn't. That was about 10 years ago. Long story short my system crashed. Now I've recently (last june) switched to the jbj rimless 10g, stock pump. Currently running chemipure blue, Ai prime light, no skimmer although I bought the nano evo13 one but am not happy with it. There is about 8lbs or so of live rock, a clownfish, firefish, pistol shrimp, emerald crab and skunk cleaner. Oh and a small margarita snail. I am planning on setting up an ato, but currently add ro/di (ro buddy for at home use which is brand new) with every day to every other day to top off. Sg stays steady at 1.025, and my other levels are: nitrate: 40ppm (I just did a large water change so I have to retest but I ran out of them); nitrite and ammonia 0ppm, ph is a touch low at 8 and alk is also low at 2 meq/L, calcium is 400ppm. Temp is kept at 78. I also feed using Vitality platinum marine pellets every other day. I do not have a phosphate test kit yet. My inverts and fish are all happy but every time I acclimate a soft coral to the tank it dies. Red mushroom, zoas, I did have a small torch at one point who was doing well at first but then I had to trade it In before it died too. I am at my wits end. I do not know what could be causing this issue other than high nitrates which I am working to bring down. Picture of the tank for reference. Any thoughts anyone can chime in with I would greatly appreciate as I really want to keep some softies but this is so frustrating. Picture with all the corals is my old 5g.