Nutrient Imbalance

Been dealing with unbalanced nutrients and trying to keep nitrates up . I thought I was just dealing with a dirty tank but idk if this is diatoms if you guys can help me out

I'm still very new to reef keeping. This tank is 6 months old now. I bought a bunch of live rock from the local shops sump to give me a kick start. Everything seems relatively happy. Only just realized my super high phosphate levels were coming from the frozen foods so I'm going to be straining and rinsing from now on. Current phosphates are between 0.2 and 0.4 so hopefully I can bring that down substantially. Wish me luck!

Can someone help me understand why I can’t keep nitrates up it keeps declining. Also I’m dosing 3mL daily on my 32 AIO is that enough? I haven’t done a water change in about a month phosphate is at 0.03

Relatively new to the hobby started my journey in may it's been a learning curve but enjoying it immensely.

Currently dealing with the fact i have bottomed out my phosphate

Back again, Keep having issues can’t keep nitrates up

A sad weed. I thought it melted last night but today has come back to life-some? I am hoping it pulls through- as this is my first slat tank with supposedly easy beginner corals. I think the macro algae is hogging all the nutrients in this pico 5 gallon so maybe this one doesn’t have a chance?

One month running now. It’s doing really well so far.

Keeping nutrients up has been a challenge but we’re making progress 🫶🏼🪸🐠

How do I get this hair algae off!!!! 😡 I’ve already treied scrubbing

Going on a little over a month and just got out of the uglies. Had a bunch of diatoms and maybe the smallest amount of cyano. Used my other two set ups to jump start this system and it seemed to work. Nutrients have been stable along with all other parameters and I have to say this tank loves to eat magnesium lol. All the lps seem to be loving this system for sure… thanks for looking and happy reefing my friends.

Been noticing a lot of hair alage growth? Any tips to fix? I cut back on feeding, am I doing something wrong

Who knew reef keeping was so hard. You get one parameter sorted then the rest blow up in you face, Ughhhhh.

(This was yesterday) slugger the snail died. My tank is a little cloudy very fast (in a day) I think it’s the led light