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Thanks. Some helpful tips there. I’m not sure what clean up crew I’m going to use yet. Still a long way to go.

Really! That’s great to know too. 16sq feet floor space my tank will take a fair few bags to fill. I have gravel in my other tropical tank. You never know Argos might have a sale on soon too to get rid of the summer stuff.

No I won’t. It’s the same with my marine tank. I did read somewhere that you can use play sand in a tropical tank, don’t know if it’s true though !!

Seangee that’s great thank you for that info that’s just what I needed. I was thinking of having mostly sand with a little gravel just for ascetics.

Thanks Colin. That’s what I thought. I know with my smaller tanks I use a symphon in the tank to agettate the gravel when I clean it. I don’t do that in my marine as the bacteria in the sand is good for the ecosystem. If I have a sump underneath I didn’t know if I’d need to still syphon from the...

Yes that was the basis of my question as I have that system in my marine tank. I wanted to see what people’s views where as I didn’t know if there was a downside of having the sump underneath the main tank

I’m with you. I was thinking of putting the trickle system in the sump underneath. My concern with having at the back of the tank is that the tank will be viewed from both sides as I will cut a hole in a wall so I would need to do it at the side and the other thing is it will reduce the size...

I don’t have that on my marine it’s a traditional Herbie system. In the tropical I was thinking of having a trickle system in the return pipes from the weir in the main tank but hadn’t thought of doing a trickle filter. I suppose that would have the benefit of using all the media in the sump as...

In addition to my tropical tank I have a 400l marine tank which obviously filters through a sump which also houses a heater, UV lamp and a protein skimmer. (I know I won’t need the skimmer) I’m looking at upgrading my tropical to an 8ft 1000l one. I really like the sump system on the marine as...

That’s great thanks, I’ll look into them.

Hello. I’m setting up a new tank. It will house a variety of community fish and have live plants. The tank will be 36” deep. I am after some suggestions for some good lighting preferably LED. As the tank Is 120” long I want to put 2 or 3 light units across the width of the tank which will be 18”...

Hello. I’m setting up a new tank. It will house a variety of community fish and have live plants. The tank will be 36” deep. I am after some suggestions for some good lighting preferably LED. As the tank Is 120” long I want to put 2 or 3 light units across the width of the tank which will be 18”...