Well they say its hard. Maybe I'm lucky. I have two tanks. The 90 is new only 3 months old and I'm letting it season.
The 55 has 4 BTA anemonies in it, One that has split three times to give me 4 total. This system has a horrable amount of crushed coral nearly 3 inches. Two saddle filters, and two powerheads, and about 60 pounds of liverock as well as 380 watts of VHO lighting. This is the system that gives me trouble with alkalinity. My water flucuates in this tank, as do the conditions. And yet my xenas are growing like weeds, the anemonies look great, star polyps are overgrowing rocks, mushrooms and frogspawn are fair right now. Go figure, my anemonies are happy without me feeding them anything, just lighting. NO sump, no skimmer, They need good lighting.
Thomas