This past year has probably been the best year for this tank so far. I've been very diligent with the water changes and feeding heavily a mix of Cyclop-Eeze and Mysis and the corals have responded very favorably.
I added a DiY actinic strip made out of 4 Royal Blue 3w CREE XT-Es and one 660nm running at 700mA. The large Acan lord colony was moved to the 29g and later fragged into 5 pieces with one small 3 polyp frag moved back into this tank. The Prism Favias were moved into its place where for the first time they started sending out long sweeper tentacles.
The Sun Coral wasn't happy being fed 2-3 times per week and died back a bit. It now gets fed daily and is growing instead of surviving. Also removed the 660nm Deep Red LED from the actinic strip since it seemed to be too distracting to the look of the tank.
The sweepers from the Prism Favias were getting on my last nerve with their bothering of the corals around them.
Moved the Prism Favias to the back corner of the tank where they can't sting anything. Also did some spot treatment on the Caulerpa with hydrogen peroxide while the water was drained out during waterchanges. So far so good, though the neon green Caulastrea did bleach a bit after it got accidently splashed by the peroxide.
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