No algea but phos 0.144

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Tank is a 180 heavy stock alk 8.26 cal 412 mag 1384 nitrate 10 sal 1.026 phos 0.144 I am losing some lps corals sps are doing good. Could it be phos to high or low. All I know is that I don't clean the glass all week. I feed rods and other stuff for corals. Any thought what can it be.
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Tank is a 180 heavy stock alk 8.26 cal 412 mag 1384 nitrate 10 sal 1.026 phos 0.144 I am losing some lps corals sps are doing good. Could it be phos to high or low. All I know is that I don't clean the glass all week. I feed rods and other stuff for corals. Any thought what can it be.

Those aren’t very high nutrient numbers, I would not mess with them.
Chasing numbers is never a good idea; especially when sps is happy.
SPS are your sensitive corals so my initial thought is lighting on your lps, have you checked par?
The top list of things i would check for are lighting, flow and pests.
Are you losing specific types of lps?

Hope this helps.
 
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I’m sorry your having such issues, I know it can be frustrating.
Have you checked the aforementioned lighting strength, flow, and bugs?

Infections are hard to beat, you could try an iodine dip or witch hazel treatment but neither will fix whatever originally weakened the coral or save anything too far gone. Both of these methods help reduce pathogen growth and allow the coral to heal but neither can fix whatever issue initially caused corals decline.

https://www.reefmoonshiners.com/witchhazel-reeftank-treatment
 

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