Alright Nice site you got and everyone seems really friendly. And I have a couple of questions. Looked back a ways and didn't really find the answers for them. First off I got a fish mainly 55 gal tank angel, 2 dasmels, 2 clowns, shrimp, snail, herits. With two hang on filter (bio wheel, and whisper) under gravel filter with powerheads on each side, powered sponge filter, and 20 lbs of live rock. The tank has been running for 1 year and a few month. So now you know my tank here are my questions
First I got a live rock with little orange and blue worms on it they get about 1 cm long when they are moving and they mostly live in the crushed coral. I think they are "bristle worms" are these bad ones to have? and I think I am getting so many cause I am over feeding? I took one of these to my LFS (= local fish store i think) and they said looks like a slug?? But they seemed dumb about it
Second I got a coral banded shrimp, I think that is what it is. Well he is big and kind of the king of the tank when he comes out. If I put in another type of shrimp (cleaner shrimp) will he attack and kill it?
Third after reading things on here I now want to rig up a loop to a refuge tank where I can culture rock, grow food, ect I have a little Galaxy 5 acrylic tank. I want to mount that above and behind the 55, so I pump water to it and then let water naturally drain back, but I will have to drill a hole in the little tank and a bulk head. What is the best way to dill it with out it looking bad?
Fourth my wife wants the fish to stand out better like in the fish store. So we have purchased 2 20000k lights in hopes to bring out the colors of the fish better than the stander bulbs. Right now we just have the standard hood on the 55, I may eventually build an wood top. The bulbs are not here yet but I did not find this site until after I orded them. Will these lights bring out the fish colors better or should I have gotten different bulbs.
Fifth you guys talk about only having the lights on for 10-12 hours, but I turn my lights on at 6:30 am when I get up and turn them off when I go to bed 9:30-11:00 pm is this wrong? Because the room gets a lot of natuaral light, so the fish will start moving around by 7 even with the lights off and I want to be able to watch the fish at night, so I really don't want to put them in the dark at 7pm. I love watching the tank, even after a year I am still sitting there almost every night watch even watching with a magnifing glass at the substrait for the little shrimp running around.
Sixth if I have a brightly lit room with the 20000 k lights will that be enought light to have one or two of the easier hardier corals such as a mushroom or a polyp
Ok I will end sorry about the long thread but these are a few questions that have been on my mind for awhile, I know I could search books and find my answer but with fish I think experience is a little better than book knowledge
Thanks alot for any answers



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no no on the under gravel filter, i almost set this up myself but i just decided to go with a bio wheel filter hang on back type, and and it seems to do the job, second all the fish waste and uneaten food tends to get sucked down and stay there instead of getting eaten by the fish or eatean by the bacteria, crushed corral , man after trying it , it definately gets dirty quick, and you would need to be sihoning it every other week...

