I do plan to add more
live rock - I'm just pacing myself. I added a 35-lb (cured) piece just 4 days ago or so... Wouldn't want to cause a spike.
I am feeding 2 - 3 times a day of a mixture of flakes, Spectrum marine pellets, frozen brine shrimp, and freeze-dried vitamin enriched brine shrimp. My cardinals will only eat the brine shrimp... everything else seems less picky. For the spectrum pellets, since they sink quickly, I drop in a few pellets at a time over the course of a couple minutes. Everything else, I drop in an amount that takes the fish about 2 minutes to eat. If I feed them the third time, it's usually about an hour before the lights go out and a scarce amount of food.
I don't have a
phosphate test kit, but at least I have ChemiPure Elite in my canister filter, which
claims it will lower
phosphates for less algae growth, and my tank has MUCH less algae than it used to. The hair algae used to be so long on one of the rocks that the sebae clown used to snuggle up inside of it like it was his anemone... Then I switched to the ChemiPure media and added 15 more (previously only had 4) small hermit crabs, and I'm not sure how much each contributed to the decrease of the algae.
