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Ok, so we scrubbed the tank yesterday and it’s looking pretty good and after using the water we had on stock, we were running our RODI machine today and noticed that the TDS is at 1. Is that water going to be throw away water at this point or would it still be safe to use at that low? Also...

We have 0 TDS on our RODI, there’s 3 live rocks in a 75 gallon tank. We have 3 firefish, a Valentini puffer, a Midas Blenny, a pistol shrimp, and a watchman goby currently. The tank is 7 months old. We feed reef plankton and rotate through Midas and brine shrimp and occasionally put the seaweed...

Our nitrate levels are usually between 5-10ppm. They have been since we started our tank in May. Is that considered high?? We use RODI water and do water changes about once a week. Will the lighting cause that much?

Can anyone tell us what kind of algae we’re dealing with here?? Is it just green hair or something different? Or do we have more than one type going on with the purple coloring and stuff in the sand? We had brown algae covering the walls every few days for a month or two, and now our walls...