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Hello, joined in June and have been stalking the forums for awhile. Recently decided to post.
About me I'm in between houses because I am caring for my grandpa 4 to 5 days per week and so am down to two small tank's (although I have a friend I got back into the hobby and help with her 70 as well.

My own setups include a 55 gallon predator/partial reef tank that's been running 26 year's:
55 gallon with a 9w uv sterilizer
Two marineland penguin filters and a evo 64 three watt led lighting. I'm getting lazy and decidednot to build lighting anymore so purchased this as temporary lighting until I decide what I want to replace it with since there's a canopy I'm limited.
Cpr back pack skimmer recently added a wet dry 20 gallon sump
100 lbs live rock
50 lbs crushed coral
Snowflake eel
Clown trigger
Niger trigger
Lion
Green spotted puffer
Stars and stripes puffer
Tomato clown
Yellow tail damsel
Foxface
10 snails
Macro
An assortment of corals including
goniopora, zoas, green star polyps, blue xenia, pipe organ, platy, favia, glove polyps, acropora, wilsoni, and a couple bubble, maxi mini and rock anemones.
My other setup is a 65 gallon with a 25 gallon sump refugium.
Refugium includes:
Macros
15 lbs of moolight sand
30 lbs of live rock
Xenia
Display tank:
100 lbs live rock
80 lbs Hawaiian black sand
Frogspawn
Plate coral
Goniopora
Glove polyps
Zoas
Platy
Wilsoni
Xenia
Green star polyps
Montiporia
Hillie
Scoly
Leptastrea
Favia
One clam/oyster
Feather dusters
Maxi mini's
Rock and bubble anemones
various acropora
Foxface
Flame angel
Neon dottyback
Pair of black ice clowns
 
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My ancient hob skimmer pump has finally decided to completely quit... need help choosing a new either hob or very small footprint in sump for my 65...
As of this morning I haven't been able to resurrect the pump again I've been working with it for the last week with it dying almost daily
 

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My 55 gallon mixed predator reef... lol keeping everyone well fed and none of the triggers or puffers mess with my corals.
 

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