Current tank params, w/Hanna Marine Master

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FWIW, the one that perplexes me the most is ammonia... I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this tester that might make my non-zero ammonia number acceptable.

Ammonia, 1.09ppm
Alk, 8dKH
Nitrate HR, 3.7ppm
Nitrite ULR, 9 ppb
Phosphate ULR .18ppm (currently still dosing LC, this has been lowered from .72 to this today, over about 2-2.5 weeks)
Mag 1280 ppm
Cal 583 ppm
PH 8.2

Currently I still have mild amounts of algae on the glass, which I find obnoxious since it makes the tank look cloudy until I scrub it off.

Curious on peoples thoughts... This is a fairly new tank, up for 10 weeks maybe? Started with 150 pounds of gulf live rock, 100 pounds of live sand.

RedSea 425XL, 2 reefled 90's, reefmat500, dc skimmer 600, AquaUV 25.
inhabitants: 1 Favia Coral, 1 Hammer Coral, 1 flower rock anemone from live rock, 2 cleaner shrimp, 1 foxface, 1 powderblue tang, and whatever else came with the live rock.
 
FWIW, the one that perplexes me the most is ammonia... I'm wondering if anyone has experience with this tester that might make my non-zero ammonia number acceptable.

Ammonia, 1.09ppm
Alk, 8dKH
Nitrate HR, 3.7ppm
Nitrite ULR, 9 ppb
Phosphate ULR .18ppm (currently still dosing LC, this has been lowered from .72 to this today, over about 2-2.5 weeks)
Mag 1280 ppm
Cal 583 ppm
PH 8.2

Currently I still have mild amounts of algae on the glass, which I find obnoxious since it makes the tank look cloudy until I scrub it off.

Curious on peoples thoughts... This is a fairly new tank, up for 10 weeks maybe? Started with 150 pounds of gulf live rock, 100 pounds of live sand.

RedSea 425XL, 2 reefled 90's, reefmat500, dc skimmer 600, AquaUV 25.
inhabitants: 1 Favia Coral, 1 Hammer Coral, 1 flower rock anemone from live rock, 2 cleaner shrimp, 1 foxface, 1 powderblue tang, and whatever else came with the live rock.
Things on living rock can die off and decay resulting in an ammonia level. I might double-check it with another test kit as a start. I would also consider strongly a water change (I'm assuming there are no fish, etc in the tank but the rock)
 

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