My tank has been running for 11 months now and that includes a tank move when we bought a new house in March. Since the cycle finished I have never tested over 5ppm Nitrate (API test kit) or over 0 phosphate (standard hanna checker not ULR). I have had and still do have algae outbreaks, went through diatoms, small hair algae outbreak, cyano came and went and now came again after moving the tank. I feed fairly heavy, pellets on an auto feeder 3 times a day, frozen when I get home at night. I have had chaeto in my fuge since day 1 which I think was a mistake, I think it takes up all the nutrients too quickly. I just bought the Nyos Nitrate kit to get a better number than the API, and the result is 1ppm. I plan to get the ULR hanna phosphate checker soon. But my question is should I feed more or dose Nitrate or phosphate to get my levels up? I still do have hair algae and cyano in the tank so I don't want to feed them. I also feel like I am feeding enough but the chaeto just pulls the nutrients out so quickly that I don't see the numbers on the test kits. As long as I have nuisance algae growing is it safe to assume I have enough nutrients and I shouldn't add more? I haven't had the best luck with my corals so I want to make sure the nutrients are enough for them. It's hard to understand what to do when I have bad algae growing but test kits show 0 and my corals aren't thriving. Not sure if this makes sense, but any advice with nitrate/phosphate is appreciated.