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[t1771]

Hi everyone. I have had a 55 gallon FOWLR for 15yrs and slowly over the past 6 months have been adding coral frags. Things were going great up until last week. I lost my pink birdsnest, an acro, green slimer, 2 colts (all frags). My anemones and rics are doing great and my zoas seem to be ok, but they're not opening as much as they were before. Obviously something happened to the water params I just don't know what.

At any rate, I am thinking about adding a 20 gal sump. Given my tank is not drilled I have been looking at overflow boxes, but I'm very concerned about what will happen if the power goes out and I don't know what type of return pump to use. Any suggestions?

Current set up:
55 gallon
80 lbs live rock
remora pro skimmer w/ mag 7
extreme nova pro T-5's (6 x 54 watts)
3 inch sand bed
2 koralis #3's
1 koralia #4
penguin 330 filter just for water flow, carbon when needed, etc

Livestock:
1 lunar wrasse (5 inches)
1 tomatoe clown (3 inches)
1 blue damsel (2 inch)
2 unknown damsels (2.5-3 inches each)
1 green chromis (2 inch)
1 long nose hawk (2 inch)
clean up crew (blue leg hermits, scarlet hermits, turbo snails, cleaner clam)
6 small rics (2 yellow, 2 orange, pink, blue)
number of zoas
2 small anemones
1 atlantic anemone

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[goldenmean]

Howdy Hooooooo!
Welocme to RS

For the overflow check out Life Reef. They have a stellar reputation!!
Lifereef Filter Systems
That is what I have on my 55g and I am using a Mag 9.5 for my return pump

[dfurbee]

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