Matt, great tank. I've really been enjoying following along on the progress of this...enough so that I wanted to join the forum so I could ask a few questions
Now that the tank has been up for a few months, are you still doing the same in terms of feeding, or have you added/taken away/changed amounts of food? How has the water quality been staying for you?
What has shown growth for you? What's staying the same? Is anything not doing well? How is the sponge growth coming? Did you intentionally add any of the sponges, or did they pop up from the live rock?
I'm suprised you don't have any tubastrea or dendrophyllia given that they would seem to do well in this tank. Are you trying to stay away from them because of their need for larger meaty food and the strain it would place on the system?
I read your build thread for this tank. Ingenious. In a few years I'd like to do a very similar tank for similar corals and I had a question about the construction. Is the acrylic bit with the overflow teeth just held on with silicone? I heard silicone did not bond glass and acrylic well.
Thanks in advance for your patience, I just love this tank. It's nice to see something different from the "oodles of Metal Halide" school of reef tanks.