[TheMinicks]

Ok what happened is I just bought it 2 1/2 weeks ago (moved it wet with all water intact) and the hair algae was already in there when I bought it (it was established for about 1 to 2 years) and when I talked to my aquarist she said he was feeding them WAY too much and that the lights were on WAY too long (11 hours) on his set timer so I did some adjusting (changedlighting to 8 hours) about a week ago and thats helped alot the nitrates went from 50 to 20 I just dont want my babies to sit in that it probably doenst feel good for them. So now I feed them 1 cube of frozen (I rotate each night mysis, kril, and a mix of everything cube) every day instead of the 2 cubes a day he was feeding I feed a tablespoon of the phytoplankton for my corals live rock and other babies that like it once a week. I have a hang on over flow box with a sponge that filters the water slightly before it runs the water down to my sump/refugium (1st chamber) then it passes to my protein skimmer then through my 2nd chamber which is a refugium chamber and then into the 3rd chamber which contains a return pump that runs the clean water back into the tank I also have 2 power heads on seperate sides of the tank for current they are pretty decent size.(all the equipment is top of the line don't know the exact names)
I have 2 inches of live sand and probably 15lbs of live rock (theres alot of live rock in there so I don't know exactly). I have a sea cuke (he's orange with white spikes) a purple lobster, emerald crab, 2 blue damsels, 1 flamehawk, 2 wrasses(missing for a week no bodies???) striped serpent star, 15 little hermit cleaners, 20 snorkel snails, live sand worms, a couple trochus snails (I had 10 somebody pulled them out of the shells and ate them???) a big pink carpet anemone with 2 babies, frog spawn coral medium sized, a white mushroom type branch coral???, 2 medium sized candy cane branch corals and a devils hand leather (my 3 year olds favorite she wakes up early every morning to see it bloom lol) The tank is a 55 gallon Oceanic tech series stainless steel edition. I do have a leather that wouldn't take to a rock and now has fallen down somewhere could it be dying and causing the influx in nitrates?? Also I am married it's just my husband works 11 hours a day and only gets 1 or 2 days off so it's hard to just sit here and wonder if someone is going to be dead in the morning because I can't change the water so I'm freaking out.