advice on feeding

santarosasalt

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Can anyone give me some advice on feeding my tank? I have a 29 gallon with 4 heads of candy corals, some zoos, mushrooms, a chili coral and a bubble coral that doesn't seem to be doing very well. Really the only thing I do is throw in a cube of frozen rotifers maybe once a week. Should I be doing anything else?
 
check your water chemistry, your tank probably have high silicate level and your alk/cal is out of balance

29 gal tank will go out of balance very quickly so you will have to be on top of it.
 
Go light and go easy. As Tom said, you can knock your water chemistry out of whack pretty easily.

My water system totals about 150 gallons and I feed my lps at least twice a week. While they're growing well, doing great and looking awesome, I'm getting more nasty light green algae growing than ever before, even though my nitrates test at 5 and my phosphates 0. I assume its from nutrients being introduced during feeding.
 
I just tested my water last night and it seemed pretty good. Nitrates were pretty darn close to 0, cal was at 380, dKH was at 9, ph 8.2, phosphates at 0. Should I be testing for silicates? I do seem to be having an algae problem. Lots of green hair algae and some red slime algae I can't get rid of. Thanks again for any advice
 
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