Help with tank

[ElephantEarwax]

I have a 30g tank with a 10g sump with about 30lb of rock. A few assorted corals, some xenia, green polyp toadstool, a few sps left over from the previous owner of the tank, and a few lps.

Lighting wise I have 2 kessil a80s and 2 24"T5 lights (4bulbs).

Sump has a cup with filter floss, a bubble magus skimmer, and about 1lb or so of ceramic media in case I have to get my small tank out for quarantine. before the return pump.

Wavemaker wise I have a jebao SLW20 at 50% power from 7:30 to 7:30 and a smaller hygger for 30g at night for low flow.

Livestock is

2 Clownfish (Ocellaris?)

3 Pitho Crabs

1 Strawberry Conch

6 Nassarius Snails

4 Turbo Snails

2 Astrea Snails

2 Cerith Snails

1 Rainbow BTA

1 Feather Duster

I feed twice a day, some pellet food for the clowns in the morning and frozen mysis/spirulina and a pinch of chroma boost tdo for inverts in the afternoon.

I do 5g water changes weekly on Saturday and manually top off with RO water from LFS daily.

I make the salt water with the same RO and red sea reefer pro salt from the black bucket to 1.027 specific gravity. Water change does involve siphoning the sand bed.

I try test a couple times a week with all salifert tests shown in the image. I have my parameters in the image below, the last two are from today one before a water change and one an hour or so after. I have a calcium test coming next week.

I have been getting some cyano (red and maybe green) and just finished a 4 day stint with only weak blue light and it looks better.

I'm looking for advice on the flow and rock scape as well as information on how to up my phosphate levels.

 

[Tahoe61]

How old is the tank?

Since you only have two fish I don't think increasing feedings is going to work to increase phosphate.
I use Neophos daily with good results. There are DIY recipes.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/best-way-to-increase-phosphate.1057991/

You could also cut back on the water changes.

Personally I leave my wavemakers on the same setting. Increasing flow can assist in decreasing Cyanobacteria. If it were my tank I would increase the intensity of the wavemakers and leave them like that 24/7.

Do you want to build the scape up?

While 1.027 falls wnl, it's on the high end. You're not leaving much room for error. Consider mixing to 1.025 or 1.026.

The tank looks great and I like your choice of lighting, it works well with soft corals.

 

[ElephantEarwax]

How old is the tank?

Since you only have two fish I don't think increasing feedings is going to work to increase phosphate.
I use Neophos daily with good results. There are DIY recipes.

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/best-way-to-increase-phosphate.1057991/

You could also cut back on the water changes.

Personally I leave my wavemakers on the same setting. Increasing flow can assist in decreasing Cyanobacteria. If it were my tank I would increase the intensity of the wavemakers and leave them like that 24/7.

Do you want to build the scape up?

While 1.027 falls wnl, it's on the high end. You're not leaving much room for error. Consider mixing to 1.025 or 1.026.

The tank looks great and I like your choice of lighting, it works well with soft corals.

I bought two tanks separately, the large 30g tank with some rock and the corals and lights was over a year old, I need borrow a par meter to actually check the light sometime, but things are stable now so im not super worried about it.
And a small 10g Tank I'll use for quarantine that was 2 years old with some more rock and the clowns, along with some snails.
I'll look into neophos.
I wasn't sure what to put my wavemakers at cause the big one maxes at 2600 GPh which seems high.
I'm open to suggestions about the scape. The way I set it up it's close to the glass on both sides.
I'll look into mixing the salt a little lower.

I do want to mostly convert the tank to softies, I like the look of hammers and torch