Layer is invisible help please

Unity Engine
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hello im trying to make my arrows instanciated at myself not collide with me.
in the ruby’s adventure tutorial the Layer setting to stop the collide worked perfectly.

ive taken the same script over to my own file.

arrow and animations work fine up until i set the layer.

when i set the arrows to the “Projectile” layer, they disappear and i start shooting invisible arrows
(you can see their position and their creation in the heirarchy.)
the layer IS NOT HIDDEN from the top right drop down. (i.e. i see the eyeball no line through it.)
any clue what else could be causing this issue?

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notes: if i take the arrows off the “Projectile” layer i created, they shoot just as expected and are visible.
if i put my player on the projectile layer he also disappears.

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more notes. if i put the arrows on the “player” layer i get what i am trying to accomplish (by making player not collide with player) this will work for now but feel this could cause issues later on. please help a newbie. jus teaching myself to Dev and could use the help