Problem solved I hope...

[jon carman]

I went to the critter today to find out why my coral is dying. I found out that my nitrates were high, but all else is fine. So I am about to do some big time cleaning and water changes.

They told me that since I don't take my live rock out to clean that a bunch of gunk could have built up under it. I also need a new actinic light to help the coraline algae.

[angel]

Well I hope that solves it! I'm having some brown diatom algae in mine. Did have green hair algae. That's a little backward. Should do brown then green. It did brown then green then brown. But phosphates are my battle so I just hope we're not cycling or something. Will do some level checking tomorrow.
So that's what the blue light is for! I thought it was for fish color!

[jon carman]

I did a 100% water change over a few hours. I will find out tomorrow I guess.

[angel]

Oh that's huge! Keeping fingers crossed.