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Skip the donations. Hit up the LFS and get the biggest piece of Frogspawn you can find. Takes up a lot of room, good movement, super easy to keep, pretty cheap for a larger colony and will often eat like a pig. You can't go wrong.

BTW, I noticed you had a gorgonian in your tank - of the awkwardly gorgeous non-photosynthetic variety. Take that thing back to the store and get your money back. Thank me later.

Which Gorg is that, the yellow one? Why do you say that? I have a huge Hammer now and a octospawn & frogspawn love them.

Both of them are what I call "sucker sales". That is to say, store owners breath a sigh of relief after they get rid of those things. They require too much effort to keep alive (in the form of feedings, the frequency of which quickly becomes obnoxious to the average reef keeper) and quickly decline in the confines of most store displays and/or reef tanks. You can see some of this happening in your specimens in the form of the smaller than usual polyps and receded tissue.

You don't need full zeo on your system if you want corals to thrive

Like i said at the start of this thread, keeping all of your levels stable is the #1 thing you can do for coral growth. Lighting is a factor but i know you have that covered after talking to you. I have heard of alot of people having great sucess with the system but you also have to remember its very time consuming and everything has to be done on a schedual which means it makes it that much harder to go away unless you have someone to look after your tank twice a day keeping up with your schedual.

To me i personally like to keep things as simple as possiable. Once you start complicating things there are to many variables that can go wrong.

I usually feed my LPS corals with mysis shrimps once a week. When the tentacles come out, LPS will grab and hold on to the food before closing up on it. Mysis shrimps are good size and you get good growth with it. I usually do it 2 days before a water change so that I can clean the polution afterwards :) No other additives. Actually, most of your corals can "eat" mysis shrimps!

As was mentioned above, the yellow Gorg does look nice but it is very hard to keep them alive for longer periods as they are NOT photosynthtic.

I usually feed my LPS corals with mysis shrimps once a week. When the tentacles come out, LPS will grab and hold on to the food before closing up on it. Mysis shrimps are good size and you get good growth with it. I usually do it 2 days before a water change so that I can clean the polution afterwards :) No other additives. Actually, most of your corals can "eat" mysis shrimps!

As was mentioned above, the yellow Gorg does look nice but it is very hard to keep them alive for longer periods as they are NOT photosynthtic.

Pee! that is what it takes...

No, that only works on jelly fish stings.

Hee..hee... I've actually done that. I'm not sure it really worked, but it was pretty amusing.

To the original question. I agree with stability on the big four: Salinity, Ca, Alk, Temp. Good lighting and water changes to supplement trace elements. That was what I was doing when I had my most success. Uncomplicated, but not necessarily easy to do.

Since having a year of setback, I'm now also a believer in massive skimming.

All my water parameter's have been on the mark from the begining of the 65 gal tanks and have continued in to my 155. As all my LR, LS and water went into it from the 65's. Corals are doing much better with the addition of the 3 - 250 MH 14k's. I really just wanted to know what this Zeovit system was out of curiosity. As long as every thing in my tank is doing well thats all that matter's.

As for the gorg I got it dirt cheap from a fellow CanReefer and it has been incredible. It seem to know that feeding time at night is just after the MH go out(as does everything else) and out come the polyps looking for there melted cube of food. Not to mention when the light's completly go out and the LED moon light's come on, look cool in the glow.