I carefully scanned my tank for mushrooms and I found plenty growing in my tank, but they were all growing in shady locations in the tank. Even the original rock that was covered with shrooms still had them... in the shady locations.
Today is the first time I checked the nitrates and they were lower than the day before with no water change!!!! The only thing I've done so far is remove the bio balls and I put about 12 lbs more life rock in my small tank. 2 lbs went into the false back sump in