Sharing my parameters in the last 177 days

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These are my parameters as I plotted them on a linear scale:
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Tank is about 110 g refuge with Chaeto (and LOTS of aiptasia and a filefish). Also: carbon dose 2 ml/day Elimi NP, Reef Actif once a week, a level spoon, A large GFO reactor, and a carbon beads reactor. Mechanical filtration is filter wool blocking a passage between the refuge and later compartments that is replaced once 1-2 weeks. However, after a week, it overflows (on purpose to let some refuge "stuff" go back to the DT). Also, Maxspect skimmer on 100% power 24/7
Anampses recently added, and about one-year-old CBB are fed half a mussel daily and lots of other food frozen and dry.
It can be seen that I cannot get phosphate back to low enough levels below 0.1. However, corals are looking good, and three small SPS surprisingly started to grow. Dosing AF +123 and Seachem trace:
The DT:
 
Should I conclude that after the first stretch of consitently low NO3, that you intentionally moved to higher NO3? And when during that 177 day span would you say your tank was most happy, or did you like the tank behavior throughout?
 
Should I conclude that after the first stretch of consitently low NO3, that you intentionally moved to higher NO3? And when during that 177 day span would you say your tank was most happy, or did you like the tank behavior throughout?
No: From day 90 to 119, I was out of the country. My tank sitter was asked to check KH once a week. When it got to 10.0, I adjusted the dosing, but the problem was that the GFO reactor got clogged. and the various export means were unable to cope with the rising phosphate. However,during this time, the tank was indeed happy (mostly SPS): My montipora (that I got to see if sps corals can survive my heavily fed tank) was half dead and covered with algae when I left, was growing like...an sps when I came back. During this time, the dosing was constant. So I assume that the increase in KH reflects a reduction in its consumption, possibly induced by the rising phosphate.
I am trying to lower the phosphate: GFO is back online now, and I increased the refuge light. Corals are doing well, but algae are giving a fight. I would carefully say that the TM Elimi NP and Reef Actif (leveled supplied spoon once a week) are doing a good job. IME RS NOPOX was promoting cyano. I replaced it with NP bacto-balance until I realized it contained a bit of NO3 and PO4 that I did not need. As I mentioned before, the KZ sponge power effectively supports massive sponge growth in my tank. Maybe we can say that it renders the tank "NO3/PO4 fluctuations- resistant" (Or simply that my DT is mature.
 

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