Hey Wayne, I've meant to do updates but it's been busy! Job is good, tank is good. I switched up my water change routine a bit. I'm doing 50 gallon water changes every week now. I found some 60 gallon barrels for sale on Craigslist that makes that size of a water change on this tank super easy. I was only doing 20 gallon water changes before and I can see a difference in coral color and growth already (Not that it was bad before, but it's even better now). I also removed my GFO and Carbon about a year ago. They seemed like a very unnecessary expense and I noticed no change in the tank or coral growth once I removed them, other than my caulerpa filled sump grew a bit faster after the removal
The Moorish Idol decided to go crazy on one of my tabling acros so now I have 3 big dead coral patches in the tank. Sometimes I love to hate that fish... I'm going to try to remove what I can this weekend but some of it is super encrusted so getting it out or broken off the rocks is going to be a chore.
I've also seen a lot of fighting within my group of anthias. I'm down to 5 now. It seems like the big one is constantly fighting with the other ones and about every month one of the smaller anthias switches genders and the domainant male harasses it until it dies. I'll probably add another fish or two once the anthias population stabilizes, although it makes me kind of angry because those fish cost $30 a piece!
@Jester, copperbands are weird fish. I'm not sure I'd get another one. They don't seem to do well in captivity. Mine feeds really well, but when he's full he just sits in the corner of the tank. He's only active at night, or when he's hungry. Otherwise he's kind of boring
I'll see if I can get some updated pics this weekend.