Too much going on with the tank last month to get any decent pics but things are starting to settle down.
First off, I decided to up the arms race with the Caulerpa after some experimentation with hydrogen peroxide. During water changes, I drain the tank more than half way which leaves a decent amount of exposed rock covered with macroalgae. I decided to try some spot treatments by squirting a little H2O2 on the rock and leaving it sit for a few minutes before filling the tank back up with new water. Sure enough, the treated Caulerpa and other algaes promptly turned clear and died off over the next couple days. The next water change, I went a little overboard and squirted a lot haphazardly over the algae covered rock. Apparently I got some on the Neon Green Caulastrea because when I filled the tank back up it was sliming off all the neon green pigment leaving it mostly dull brown. It's coloring back up now, but was a little worrysome at first. Thankfully the algaes weren't so lucky...
I've also been moving some corals around due to sweeper tentacles and how much everything has grown together. The Prism Favias have been moved to the very back of the tank where they can't sweep anything anymore and the Nuclear Greens which were being surrounded by the Meteor Shower Cyphastrea got moved into their spot along with an Acan lord frag that had nowhere to grow. The orange Acan echinata was moved back after his monthly sweep of the dark green lord in front of him, so hopefully everything is out of its reach now as well. Safecracker zoas are quickly filling in all the voids on that side of the tank and have more room to spread now as well.
The only other new news is the Sun Coral I have been spot feeding mysis every day has finally grown over most of the old dead skeleton and is actually starting to send out a bunch of baby polyps. Lesson learned, Tubastreas are HEAVY feeders.
Also, here's another update on the 29g softie tank. I'm still only using tap water on this tank and water changes are few and far between. This means turf algae heaven but the corals seem to be doing very well so it's a compromise for now. I added as many "invasive" softies as I could find and so far they're doing what I wanted. I was just surprised to find Efflatounaria to be more invasive than Anthelia or Xenia.
