Why am I struggling with my 4 month old reef tanks

@sangp 20d

4 months is still pretty new.

@petersnano 18d

So much is luck

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@billy 20d

My first year of reefing was pretty rough. I then started auto dosing All-For-Reef and stopped making so many tweaks to my tank and corals started growing. Everyone says it but stability really is the #1 thing

@reeferreefer 19d

I heard a lot of bad things about dosing in the first year didn’t know if that is true or not. What doser do you use

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@Reefer21 19d

I'm like you. Everyone keeps wanting to tell me it's too soon to auto dose. But I'm figuring out my tanks daily consumption now.

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@reeferreefer 19d

How do you figure that out

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@Reefer21 19d

I'm tracking my dkh, calcium, magnesium, nitrates, and phosphorus daily. Trying to identify trends and patterns so that I can determine a daily dosage amount.

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@Reefer21 19d

Feeling the same. My tanks are 2 months old and I'm just doing my best at this point. Haha

@FarmerJack77 19d

I'm on about the same time line with my pico. Entered the ugly phase this week. I know it will be better on the other side, but ooph.

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@Reefer21 19d

Yeah we're in the ugly phase. I've decided I hate white rock and diatoms!!

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@Patrick727 19d

My tank is 16 years old and I’m still figuring it out so don’t stress so much everyone of us have been there at one point or another that’s reading in general and also no two tanks are the same good luck

@ReeferMadness842 18d

Couldn’t have said it better every set up swings in wild directions and you just have to let it find its dance then help it keep it. I couldn’t imagine being new to reef keeping now a days. The amount of info is awesome but also a ton to sift thru. Best advice I could ever tell a new reefer is find someone who has a tank or tanks you love. Learn their ways and methods. Listen to no one else. Less is always more and when things feel out of control it’s time to step back and let the tank breathe.

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@LegendaryBamboo61 15d

My tank has been set up for almost a year. I just started sticking it a month ago. 60g breeder, 7 small fish, 2 pincushion urchins, one sand sifting starfish, some snails, soft coral frags, a lettuce sea slug, and one rainbow bubble tip anemone. All seem healthy and happy. A friend of mine who says he knows all about saltwater tanks, told me everything in my tank is going to die. My advice is do your research, do your testing, and take other people’s advice with a grain of salt. Opinions are like A holes, everybody has one, doesn’t mean they are right or wrong. It’s your tank, you do you.