It truly is time for an update.
Things have been up and down with this tank, and it is mainly due to me not having the extra time and motivation to work on the tank.
At one point I bought a Coral Beauty dwarf angel in hopes that I would feed it enough to not develop a taste for my corals, but to no avail.
I eventually made a trap out of eggcrate and got him out.
In the midst of feeding heavily, the tank broke out in cyano and green hair algae. I do not have a picture at its worst but let's just say the sight of it made me depressed. I lost some coral, a beautiful Stylophora that I got from Carla. Some of my other corals showed no ill effects.
Now I am making the time to really bring this tank back in order, it just pains me to see it how it was. I was using three 5 gallon buckets to mix saltwater which was tedious trying to match salinity and only mixing so much at once, so I bit the bullet and bought an appropriate sized mixing container.
Now doing larger, regular water changes and adding some chaeto to my refugium I hope to see some positive changes.
I already do see a vast improvement and hope to keep things moving foward. In the near future I would like to get a small harem of flasher/fairy wrasses and a midas blenny, but in order to do this I had to remove the bad egg(sixline). He was extremely territorial and would chase new additions into the rock until they ended up dying from starvation and stress. Originally he was in a tank by himself but I had to break that tank down and in the 60g he went. I borrowed a fish trap and within a day I was able to catch him.
Here are some updated shots(before I siphoned out the cyano)
(Half of this Trachyphyllia was gone due to a Euphyllia(hammer) falling on it at the LFS. I think it is healing up well.)