Sounded fishy to me.I have about 12 hermits in my 6x2x2 the problem is if they run out of food they then pick on each other you will also need a good selection of shells of they will try and rob each other and even evict snails if they take a fancy to there shell !!
I would say 12 is far to many for your tank in my opinion unless you going to feed heavy but you can say goodbye to keeping good water quality.
So after cleaning and whatnot, I just drop the empty shell into the tank?I'm not sure where you are located as I'm in UK we either buy shells from LFS or online if you have them in tide pools where ever you are then I can't see an issue with that just soak them overnight in RO water and make sure there nothing already living in them !!
You only need a couple of snails in there what ever you add it has to eat and if there is nothing for them to eat they will soon die.
Do I look for shells slightly bigger? Quite a bit bigger? Huge?Yeah that's all I do with mine I put them behind the rocks they soon find them and you will be looking at the tank one day and think I've not see that hermit and it is because it's changed shell haha
I put some new ones in last weekend and the following day a hermit had moved into one of the new shells.
Good service indeed. I was wondering what the "upgrade" was about. More flow apparently? Anyways, I'll give'er a whirl.Amazing service from Red Sea. I think it increased my temp by1 to 81-83 morning to night instead of 80-82 so I put the old ones back in this morning to prove my theory. If I am right I'll stick to the stock ones for now since I don't run a heater or chiller I keep the house at 75 here in Texas.
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I love the look of the T5s in this tank, but the heat output is insane. When I adopted this tank I was told the lights were a bit old and that there were two new T5s in the cabinet. I can only imagine how much brighter and hotter the new ones are if the current ones are "a bit old."I work from home so I have to keep the house a steady temp. If it was t for that I would go led versus a chiller for sure. People complain about the t5 in our tank. This is my second rsm 130d and I bought it used a month ago. I was told the bulbs were new. Since I knew I would need new ones down the road I ordered one and let me tell you these bulbs must be at least 2 years old the new one is so much brighter and bluer I can't wait for the second to arrive and make it even more blue. For shimmer I point my powerhead at the surface. Not the same as led or mh but enough for me
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Wow, 120 gph more with the upgrade. Is this necessary for a FOWLR tank?original stock were.... (2) 145 gph pumps if I remember right...