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To echo mcgyvr, if you aren't willing to work for it then yes, shutting it down is best. Marine aquariums are high maintenance. Good looking aquariums look good because somebody put a lot of work into it.
I spent over a year measuring KH and CA nearly daily and I've just now got that right, I think; but I've thought that before. I also took out rocks and scrubbed algae off them for quite a while early on. Followed by repeatedly siphoning out cyano for quite a while.
I'm at 17 months now and I would characterize my aquarium as not great looking although everybody seems happy and the corals are growing well.
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