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For the longest time I thought the reason a few of my corals were browning out was due to nitrates being too high. They aren’t super brown but a lot of my montipora has a slight brownish red tint to it and my galaxia turned brown. I just bought a ulr phosphate hannachecker. And was given a Red Sea nitrate rest by a fellow reefer. So after several tests my nitrates are 0 and my phosphate is .058. I have a very small amount of cyano bacteria and I do get a lot of algae buildup on my glass after a week or two. I’m completely baffled by this. It’s a pretty heavily stocked 100 gallon system. I feed 1 cube of mysis or krill daily. I switch that out and feed pellet food a few times during the week. My filtration I thought was sub par. I have a really crappy protine skimmer it’s the seaclone hang on the back one. I also run a filter sock but I get pretty lazy Changing those. I guess the bulk of my filtration is done through my refugium. My sump is a 40b mostly dedicated to a refugium. I have two mangroves in there and grow chato with one of those ufo grow lights off of Amazon. There is also around 100-110 pounds of live rock. My goal is to eventually start growing acros but currently I’ve been getting montipora and birds nest corals that are doing decently well. I eventually want my system to be sps dominante. It is my understanding that these numbers are two low. I would rather not dose nitrate or phosphate. If I start feeding twice a day would that help bring these numbers up? Should I add more fish? Thank you