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This is a nice example of a good guy bristle worm

Bristle worms have red bodies and white edges

It’s most likely a bristle worm (much more common). You want these I’m the tank they can a great part of the clean up crew

With marines it was about gas exchange so had a mesh top. now I’ve move back to tropical I’d like to lower my lights and have a solid top reduce evaporation. I’d need to cut around lights what’s around? Was thinking along the lines of Perspex maybe 6mm or more

In England you can go to work and people are where I work (building site) as sick pay is next to nothing on the books and subcontractors get nothing when testing was free they told everyone they had it and we made them work outside wear a mask indoors this week a bloke was Ill but said he wasn’t...

I’ve read the beginners guide and a few other threads so dunno why I’m asking. But once I’ve added sand/hard scape fill with water when do I start adding ammonia? Brand of choice? I get the testing bit, at which point do I add plants? When do you add safe start? again sorry think I’ve read too...

I was too worried about the wood as I wasn’t really sure where and what to use but with rocks I can’t help but think they’ve picked them up on the way to work 😂😂

Well I’ll be walking down the beach on my lunch break tomorrow then!

Years ago when I had my first tank I just went to a stony beach picked up a load I like then tasted them in vinegar and washed them. Do people still do this? Been reading some of my old books and care for the fish has come on some so didn’t know if people have stopped doing this

So I’ve ordered some filter media. Fine medium and course foam and some egg crate to make a sort of basket just to contain it I’ve Also got some alfagrog rock where’s best to place this in the basket? Or just in the section of the sump?

Can’t go wrong with that!

Ok cheers i had just sand years ago been seeing these plant substrate but didn’t know if these are worth it? Play sand is good yea?

I’m still abit undecided exactly what route I want to go with fish wise but Corys/ catfish will be in there so I’m thinking a sand I want a planted aquarium. Do you need like a sub substrate for plants? On a side note I couldn’t believe how expensive lfs was for wood compared to the range got...

Okay I’ll hold on to them for now I hate selling things!

Thanks for the detailed post! One of the sites that sells them says it Can be used with any indoor growing method – hydroponics, aeroponics so must be ‘ok’ so what would be your advise be sell them or go for it and see how I go?

Thanks for the quick reply! These are the 6 channels I have Hyper Red: 4 Osram (3W) Green: 4 Cree XPE (3W) Deep Blue: 16 Cree XTE (5W) Cool White: 20 Cree XTE (5W) Blue: 16 Cree XPE (3W) Indigo: 12 SemiLEDS (3W) These are dimmable so I can set these to anything from off (0%) to 100% set by...

Tank dimensions 900x52x54 I currently swapping from marines to tropical the light I currently have are evergrow 5018 with 6 channels red,green,white, blue, royal blues and uv which ramp up and down on a timer and I can set strength of each channel (gave back ground so you don’t need to google it...

How much would a good enough light cost new? As the light I got on it atm is an evergrow it5080 it’s has 6 channels red,green white, blue,uv and blue actinic which you can ramp up and down the % through the day. Just wondering if it’s worth selling and getting a more standard light. Or I’ll just...

Ye thinking I’ve got a 3ft could sell it and buy a 4 ft but I’ve got all the equipment for the 3 may as well stick with it Also mean I can use the return pump for flow and have no equipment in the tank. Currently researching what media to put in the cambers basically making it into a sort of...

Hi all! Kept tropical about 15 years ago since then just had marines things seemed to of changed a lot since then! I have a 900x55x50 ish marine tank with a sump I’m thinking of using turning the sump into a large filter basically anyone done this here?