Struggling with reef

[leonk]

Hello fairly new to the hobby and I was just curious looks like diatoms since the reef is still cycling and about almost 2 months old I am just worried for the coral and was wondering if it is even diatoms or something more serious? And if I should let it do its thing or remove it if possible? Only got 2 clown fish a cleaner shrimp and a blenny and afew soft coral.here are some photos of it my parameters are

Calcium 289 getting higher was using wrong salt!
Magnesium 1003 also getting higher daily
Phoshpate 0.09 was at 0.03 afew days ago
Ph 8.1
Alkalinity 9.2
Nitrate hr 0.0
Salinity 1.026

 

[leonk]

Hello fairly new to the hobby and I was just curious looks like diatoms since the reef is still cycling and about almost 2 months old I am just worried for the coral and was wondering if it is even diatoms or something more serious? And if I should let it do its thing or remove it if possible? Only got 2 clown fish a cleaner shrimp and a blenny and afew soft coral.here are some photos of it my parameters are

Calcium 289 getting higher was using wrong salt!
Magnesium 1003 also getting higher daily
Phoshpate 0.09 was at 0.03 afew days ago
Ph 8.1
Alkalinity 9.2
Nitrate hr 0.0
Salinity 1.026

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Can you post any pictures? Preferably under white light. zero nitrates is not a good thing.

 

[leonk]

Here are afew more photos

 

[twentyleagues]

Looks like hair algae on the frag plug. Would need white light pic for more info, full tank if possible, close up of algae too.

 

[twentyleagues]

looks to be diatoms on the sand. Hard to tell on the plugs and rock.

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Looks like normal new tank stuff, but hard to tell. You do need to get those nitrates up a bit though.

 

[leonk]

Can you post any pictures? Preferably under white light. zero nitrates is not a good thing.

Looks like hair algae on the frag plug. Would need white light pic for more info, full tank if possible, close up of algae too.

 

[leonk]

Looks like normal new tank stuff, but hard to tell. You do need to get those nitrates up a bit though.

Should I be worried about the string algae? I don’t want it killing coral thank you for the response as well and how do you recommend to pick up the nitrate lvls

 

[leonk]

looks to be diatoms on the sand. Hard to tell on the plugs and rock.

Looks stringy on the corals but on a price of decoration it looks like hair

 

[Sophie"s mom]

Should I be worried about the string algae? I don’t want it killing coral thank you for the response as well and how do you recommend to pick up the nitrate lvls

more fish food will raise nitrates. When you say string algae, do you mean hair algae? If so, get some critters that will eat it. Pitho crabs are big algae eaters.