My tank is Alive, but not Thriving

[Idech]

I have been dosing silicate for more than a year due to dinos. When I did my ICP test my levels were 3000% over the normal value. I’m sure your levels are nothing compared to that. My tank is fine with that so don’t worry too much.

 

[Badboyan93l]

I had that issue! lol and I decided if I'm going to keep high phos with high lighting, than I'll raise the nitrates and alk and just siphon out the algae. Then I dosed Microlift special blend and Microbactor clean once a week three day in between!. My tank parameters are now as follow for a year now.

SG: 1.024
Alk: 11
Phos .9(but lowering it to .2 for SPS growth)
Nitrates: 50
Mag 1550,
Cal: 500

PS: once everything's set DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE, JUST LET IT BE LOL