Kill off the flatworms that continue to plague the tank
	Do some significant water changes
	Get the pH back up to a reasonable level one way or another.

	Alkalinity -     3.0 meq/l
	Calcium -      420 ppm
	pH -                7.7 night to 8.0 day - adjusted to 7.9 Night to 8.20 as I write this.
	Temp -           81.0 to 83.0F
	Salinity -         1.026

Interesting recent pictures

	Here is a shot of the center of the tank.  I have had to move the Derasa clams apart as they were outgrowing the space available in the center of the tank.  The Derasa in this picture is about 15" long at the shell and the other one is about 12".  They are extremely heavy and have very sharp edges to their shells and I cut my hands pretty good during the move.
	This shot of the left end of the tank, shows just how much the pink polyps are spreading.  There are patches of this polyp showing up all around the tank.  I may have to figure out a way to kill polyps to keep them in check.  I have considered adding a racoon butterflyfish, but he may decide to go after the clams, so I haven't had the guts to try one yet.

 New Additions

	This colony of A. tenuis coral that was degenerating from the last entry continued to do poorly and I have since removed it entirely.
	A fairly large tan millipora colony that I have had for a number of years suddenly bleached out and died and was one of the events that got me moving on getting things turned around with the tank.
	The Galaxea coral is showing signs of dieing back.

	I decided to wage war on the red flatworms that have populated the tank for some time.  Though they are not directly destructive, they are themselves toxic when they die and I figured they may be adding to the general tank decline, plus they don't look good.  The tricky part about getting rid of them is that once they are dead, they can release their toxins into the water and cause problems for the tank.
	There is a new product on the market made by Salifert called 'Flatworm Exit'.  The small vial treats 300 gallons of tank water.   To minimize the amount of toxins the flatworms would excrete, I siphoned out as many as I could.  Though I removed quite a few, it probably only amounted to 20% of the amount in the tank due to the difficulty in reaching many of them in the crevices.
	With my sump, I have about 250 gallons of capacity, so I added the entire contents to my tank.  I kept the skimmer running and removed the carbon in the sump.  The product immediately started to work.  Within a couple of minutes, the flatworms were obviously agitated and  within 5-10 minutes started to die and float free in the water.  Many of the dead flatworms started to collect in current eddies in the sand and the red toxic juices could be seen leaking from their bodies.  For the next half hour or so, I continued to siphon as many dead flatworms out of the tank as possible.  I also cranked the skimmer up so it would skim very heavily (about a gallon an hour) to help remove stuff in the water.  After about 1/2 hour it was obvious that all worms were dead.  I then added a full media bag of carbon near the intake of one of the return pumps to pull toxins out of the water.  I also placed a Poly Filter where the output of the skimmer would go through it to further help to pull toxins out.  I then continued to change some water, siphoning out what flatworms I could.  Overall, I changed about 50 gallons of water during treatment of the tank.  Some of the corals and clams looked a little distressed during treatment, but within a couple of hours, everything had returned to normal.
	I treated the tank a week ago as I write this and there is no signs of any flatworms left. It looks like it was 100% effective. This product works extremely well, even better than I had hoped and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is struggling with this pest.  Just take care in dealing with the toxins that the flatworms release when they die.
	To boost my pH, I have started using Kent pH Buffer.  Kalk additions alone did not seem to be doing it.  For a couple of days, I added about 10 tsp of this product to a gallon of water and siphoned it in slowly.  Now, since I need to makeup about 3 or 4 gallons of water a day due to evaporation.  I mix a few tsp of this product in one of those gallons and drip 1-2 gallons of Kalk in with the other makeup water.  I was getting drops in pH down to as low as 7.7 and since I have started this program, pH is staying above 7.9 at night which I consider to be OK, though it would be nice to get it up to 8.0 on the low side.  Daytime measurement is up around 8.2 to 8.3 range now where it was in the 8.0 to 8.1 range before.
	I have also decided to increase my overall water changes.  I am now going back to about a 16 gallon a week water change for the foreseeable future.  I have already noticed some improvements on polyp extension when I check the tank at night.  I will keep an eye on that as well as SPS coloration to see how things progress.