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Sorry for the troubles. I have been doing this a long time and have had periods when it felt like work and didn’t bring much joy. You’ll get past it. The tank that gave me the most problems was the only one I started with dry rock. I think current BRS discussions around the reef biome are on to something. If I was in your shoes I’d focus getting a diverse bacterial biome established. Wish you the best of luck.Update! Not good news!
My 15 g is doing HORRIBLE … I been in the hobby for 7 years and I still can’t figure out how to turn it around … I can’t get rid of algae on the rocks I think they are leaching nitrate and phosphate which is feeding the algae and not leaving anything left over for the corals. There was 0 nitrate and 0 phos in my water I had Dino’s that I recently got rid of because of the low nutrients… so I started dosing NP plus by Tropic Marin to add nitrate and phos … the tank looks horrible the corals looks terrible but are still alive. it’s 7 months old I should be past all this crappy stuff idk what to do anymore. I been staying away from waterchanges because it will jus bottom out my nutrients again. I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. This sucks.. I might have to start all over… trickiest most pain in the A** tank I ever had =(