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Hello all it’s been a while since I’ve needed some advice I have had a reef tank now probably for about nine years. I have had what I would consider a pretty successful low maintenance reef tank which was 120 gallon oceanic tec tank. I had a very simple sump system that was pump down at my basement which was very undersized I know the sample is probably only about 10 gallons with a E shops protein skimmer read it at 125 gallon I believe I did very minimal water changes and minimal maintenance and everything always seem to do pretty dang good. Lighting on the tank was one eco-tech marine GEN to pro place directly in the center. I had probably 12 rose Bubble tip anemones which were absolutely beautiful and huge. Now for my problem that I would like some advice on. I need to downsize and ended up picking up a beautiful used red sea refer 170 which is a total of I believe 50 gallons 34 gallons in the display and the rest is in the sump I am running my same eco-tech Jen to light over the tank 10” +- over the water and in this tank I lowered the out put to I believe 50 % and my same E shops protein skimmer read that 120 gallons my water chemistry is pretty spot on according to the last Time I had it tested. The tank has been up and running pretty successfully now for about six months the problem is my RBT’s are now all the size of half dollars and some smaller they were doing great when the tank was first started and filled almost the entire tank the clown fish that I’ve had for 10 years still try to go with them still try to feed them but they just don’t seem very happy. I don’t know what’s wrong I almost forgot to mention I have a max spec Gyre pump in the back of the tank facing front which has an unbelievable amount of flow for tank that size obviously it’s not turned all the way up because it wouldn’t be any water left in the tank. I just don’t get it I have a little tank set up in my kitchen for my wife I think it’s a 6 gallon bio cube which I am sad to say is very neglected it has two clown fish in it and a cleaner shrimp and the RBT’s in her tank fill the entire tank and always have. Her tank is pretty much covered in red algae and green hair LG that I try to clean all the time but I believe it’s just in the rock and I leave it as is because of the RBT’s looks so good so I don’t wanna mess with it any info on maybe lighting. The last photo is of the tank now you can see how small the RBT’s are . Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated thanks