Tank parameters, what would you do.

[reefer37160]

Cal 420
dKH 7
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0
Ph 8
Mag not tested, waiting for Amazon
Salinity 1.024 done with calibrated refractometer
All tests done with api test kits.
150g tall, 20g triton sapphire sump, 2000gph return pump, 2 Jabeo pp4 wavemakers 530-1000gph, coral life 125g skimmer, Popbloom t30 x3 led panels, currently in algae control setting installed 8 inches above tank. Fish are fed 2x day very generously, corals are fed every 3 days polyp labs polyp booster and reef roids target feed.

How would you increase the nitrate and phosphate to encourage coral growth, with out encouraging algae? I would like to get my alk to around 9, but with out other nutrients it is pointless.

Live stock is as follows,

Fish

3 small ocellaris clowns
1 flame hawk
1 3 stripe damsel
1 watchman goby

Inverts

1 Large brittle star
1 coral banded shrimp
15 large micro brittle star
1 tiger conch
30 small-medium red leg hermits
12 or so mixed snails
1 large feather duster

Corals

Large pink gonipora colony
10 heads grandis paly
100 ish heads of acan
15 head duncan
10 head blasto
5 head lobo, still recovering from former home.
Large blue devils hand
4 small frags of various favia
15 Aussie Superman rhodactius
10 other mushrooms
1 small flower nem
1 Small green LTA

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I’d raise the salinity to 35 ppt (sg ~ 1.0264) and nothing else at the moment.