Just some background info first:
I have a BB 30 gallon tank with a 15 gallon sump. My display tank has been up and running since mid-late July, my rocks were sitting in a holding tank about 2 months piror to being moved to my display tank. So I guess I could say the tank has been up and running for about half a year plus or minus a few weeks. My most recent test done showed that all of my levels (nitrate, nitrite, and ammonia) are zero (or very close to it). All of the corals that I've put in the tank have grown quite a bit. My xenia has multiplied and is in the process of splitting again, my orange montipora cap has grown noticably since I got it late August, my green digitata frag is finally starting to turn green, and all my zoos are starting to spread nicely. I'm just having problems getting a colt frag to attach... but thats a different story.
Filtration consists of a bakpak skimmer, a refugium packed with chaeto and a bunch of liverock/baserock (I am unsure of how much I have in there... I would guess 30+ pounds). Lighting consists of 2 175watt 10000k Ushio MH bulbs and 1 95 watt vho actinic. Flow is provided by a Mag950 plumbed through a SCWD with two OceanMotions Revolutions connected to the output, and two medium sized maxijet powerheads. Cleaning crew consists of two turbo snails... I used to have a couple of ceriths snails as well, but I have since lost track of them. Fish consist of two false perculas and one lawnmower blenny, which have all been in the tank since early/mid September. Water topoff is done with RO water fed through a kalk reactor. I seem to have gotten over most major algae blooms... most of the algae on the walls of my tank have receeded, and coraline is starting to form on my base rock and on the glass.
On to my questions:
Is my tank mature enough for one?
Is the light good enough?
Too much flow? Too little?
I've been reading up on BTAs, and I got some conflicting information... so I just wanted to clarify with some people who've had experience with them.
(Yeesh, that post was a lot longer than I wanted it to be
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-Richer