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First of all is the lighting hood. I've got 2x 20W cool white 6500K LED floodlights. I know this sounds bright, but I've read that with LED lights you need to go by lumens, not watts. I found several articles stating that for a medium light tank you needed 35-50 lumens/L. My tank is 130L (and 70cm deep), and I'll probably be around 100-110L with sand, etc in the tank. So I need 3500-5000 lumens?? Seems a lot. These lights are rated at 1600-1800 lumens each (120 deg spread), and knowing ebay product ratings they're probably 10-25% less in real life. So I'm probably looking at anything from 2400 (1600x2-25%) to 3600 (1800x2) lumens. Hard to tell with ebay stuff, but I found a couple of articles where they praised these lights highly. I've stripped all the crappy and heavy flouro gear out (weighed a tonne), and 3D printed mounts that put the face of the light down flush with the bottom of the hood. One of the complaints I read more than once was that the flouros being recessed up in the hood cast serious shadows and greatly affected the performance of the lights. I cut the bottom of a junction box out so it would fit, and so I could solder wires and keep the individual light switches for versatility. I've got epoxy and silastic drying now, so that's it for tonight.

Thanks Buck, I have totally forgotten. They grow painfully slow haha. Hopefully I can get it to flower one day. Thanks Shrimpaholich, It is frustrating as anything haha. Nowadays I just buy the best shrimp I can find instead of starting with culls. I have had the rili for almost two years and they aren't even close to breeding true let alone being a consistent high grade. I get the occasional decent shrimp but too many culls. I started with around 30 or 40 culls. I let them breed up to around 300 shrimp then I picked the best 6 females and best 4 males. Since then I have been culling shrimplets as they mature into juvies when they don't have the proper rili pattern. I do get the occasional stunner but very few and far between. There has been progress but it has been a lot of effort especial if you miss a rubbish male and he starts breeding. haha So the moral of the story if you want good looking shrimp start with the best.

Taking it to the next level Welcome to Disciple Shrimp Youtube Channel haha I thought you guys might enjoy a video.

Following with interest. I kept my Aquaone filter in place and filled it with ceramic noodles.Then I fed the outlet of my canister filter into the Aquaone filter. Double the filtration.