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Undergravel filter question

I have two undergravel filter bottoms with the tubes coming out of them. I don’t know what filter they would hook up to or anything so I was hoping I could get some insight as to what I can hook them to. I have a cascade 700 (i think it is the 700) and that’s it but I like the idea of the…

Using rocks from lake

I am starting a native tank and am wondering if it is alright to use rocks from the lake that I would catch my fish from. Would this help with the cycling process? If I rubbed rocks or something from the lake onto my filtration media would that populate the media with the beneficial biological…

Glofish spawning

Copied from the breeding section of MFK. I haven’t seen a breeding section on AC but maybe some of you guys have an answer for me.

My glofish are spawning. They’ve laid eggs a few times. I lost the eggs once to broken heater and lost the fry the first time because it was my first week with fish…

Big upgrade..need some advice/suggestions

Hi all. I just upgraded to a new tank last night (or this morning if you count how long i was up working on it). I had a 5gal and soon jumped into a 20L. I had the 20L running for a few years and was quite happy with it. Recently tried upping the plants in the 20L and that didn’t go so well. While…

vacation prep

so im going on vacation in about a month. we go for a week or a little more than a week. anyway i just want to make sure im getting everything right. ill be doing a 50% water change on all tanks the day before i leave. i will swish around my media in old tank water. im adding some filter floss…

Filtration Question

Hi I have a 75 gallon freshwater Community aquarium, and I was wondering if someone could help me with something? Currently in the tank i have 3 cory’s, 5 rummy nose tetras, 2 candycane tetras,2 small german blue rams(they are an inch they are so cute), 3 hatchet fish, 4 pencil fish, 3 pengiunfish,…

Need to level 55 gallon aquarium

Am setting up my 55 gallon aquarium, it is on a nice wooden stand cabinet and today I checked it out to see if it was level. The front of the tank on both sides are aprox. 1/4″ or around that to low. I know that there is an amount that a tank can be off without affecting anything, is 1/4″ O.K. or…

Rash after putting hand/arm in aquarium

Now this may sound like a joke (my girlfriend has been ripping it out of me) but whenever I am doing tank maintenance for a prolonged period of time my arm becomes rashy and sore…. I always wash my arm afterwards but this seems to be having no effect. I googled it and it only tells me I have fish…

Rash after putting hand/arm in aquarium

Now this may sound like a joke (my girlfriend has been ripping it out of me) but whenever I am doing tank maintenance for a prolonged period of time my arm becomes rashy and sore…. I always wash my arm afterwards but this seems to be having no effect. I googled it and it only tells me I have fish…

Pregnant Molly, is this ok?

I picked up a pregnant Molly and she seems about ready to pop. She seems to have a small bit of a white tube coming out her back end. I saw my other Molly have that once but she never birthed even though she looked like she was in labor. I’ve also had another Molly give birth without any noticeable…