Don't worry, I was confused long before today :lol:
So you've had some of your LPS for as long as 7 years? What type of lights do you have? Do you have frogspawn, torch, and/or hammer corals?
Tank has been up for nearly 8 years. Oldest coral is probably 7 years in my tank... who knows how old it was before it got to me! Up until a month ago, I just ran 2x 96W PC bulbs, but changed them every 6 months - one 10,000k and one 420 actinic. 10 hour photoperiod. Just last month I switched to 2x 36inch BML fixtures. After a bit of fine tuning, things seem to be happy and back to growing again. I dimmed the BML fixtures to give me more or less the same amount of light as the PC bulbs, since those were working well for me.
One of my original corals was a torch, but it grew too quick and became hostile to everything in my tank. It didn't help I put it right in the center of the tank where it could reach everything with its sweepers. It was only in my tank for maybe 1-2 years before I sold it back to the LFS for more than I paid for it!
Never done frogspawn, but did try a hammer once. Poor placement and clumsiness on my part killed it after some salt creep fell off my tank rim and right onto the tissue. Didn't realize it until it was too late, and it never recovered.
Current corals are a Duncan, Tubrinaria, Lobophyllia, a couple Acan colonies, Platygyra, Lythophyllon, Blastomussa, some mushrooms, blue snowflake polyps *everywhere* and a Montiipora digitata. Here's a photo from January 2013. The Birdsnest on the upper left is where the Monti is now and the thing on the top of the right rock (can't remember what is was) RTNed on me shortly after I got it. The Duncan and Turbinaria are constantly getting pruned, so their size varies from time to time!
<a href="http://s237.photobucket.com/user/K_Nelson_photos/media/jan2013.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff156/K_Nelson_photos/jan2013.jpg" border="0" alt="January 2013 photo jan2013.jpg"/></a>