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Two months on and there have been some changes in the tank.
I switched from basic 3 part dosing (randy's) to the FM balling salts and had an alk spike as a result, this was not too bad but really came about due to a faulty test kit. The only negative result was a bit of stn on my red robin stag. The alk is now stable at 8dkh.

I had to remove the anemone and clowns and relocate them to my 2 foot cube at work as the nem was huge and the clownfish killed a very expensive flame wrasse, literally dragged it around by the gills. I did not really want to take them out but had to.

Another development was that I added some media to the sump to increase biological filtration it was a ceramic media in a block form that was recommended by by LFS here. Anyway after 1.5 months my nitrates went from near 0 to about 16 which could easily have been the lack of carbon dosing or over feeding but due to the size of the media and its possible negative effects i pulled it.

One consequence of switching to FM salts as opposed to randy's recipe is that the pH of the aquarium has fallen slightly. To counter this I have put in a smallish fuge with Chaeto and caulerpa.

I filled the nem space with two larger sps colonies, in fact the only non frags i have started with. one is a lovely aussie piece and the other a green and yellow millie.

Apart from that I have added a chalice, some shrooms and a zoas to fill in and act as accent corals and growth is now really staring to take off at last.

Bubble algae and brown wafer continues to be a little troublesome but I have had two halloween urchins mowing through it.

The ATI hybrid PM has been a great success and now I have resolved a small issue with the clock resetting during power outages it seems we may be getting somewhere.
lastly I replaced the Tunze 6095's with vortechs and am very impressed with the flow and controllability using the apex.

Pictures to follow