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Okay, let me clarify: this incident was at least five years ago, so he is old enough, and lost most of that manic energy, to know better. But the kid isn't the point. I know parents should look after the kids etc. I was just wondering if anyone has ever modified their tanks, stands, or lids on...

Anybody with ideas?

Its not in the basement and the boogyman will only encourage him. And by the way I had the food hidden. This boy is relentless.

Well, I really don't want to put a prefilter on my fluval 305 tho, but I am not throwing out sand as a possible option. Anyone else? You're welcome to opine.

Have you guys ever tried to childproof your tanks? I can tell one (of many) curious little story of how my little cousin, 6yr old at the time, was at my house. He sneaked out of sight for two minutes and I found him watching my tank as a million flakes go through the water like snowflakes...

polyfil is always used last in most canisters to keep the impeller from getting clogged up with gunk, but placing it before the biomedia is totally fine. That way you protect both. Just keep it clean. Im not one for keeping dirtied sponges in the filter to prevent "drastic" biological bed...

Its CaribSea Floramax Volcanic Red to be precise.

Well this is a SE Asian biotope and it's a 29 gallon. So I was thinking some dwarf loaches or kuhli loaches. They're small enough to be a school in a tank that small. Besides I've heard that loaches have very sensitive bottoms so I don't want to gamble fish health with just putting them in my...

Hi AA I have a half year old 29g SE Asian planted biotope tank with 6 harlequin rasboras so far. I am stocking VERY slowly and right now I just have red volcano Eco Complete as substrate (btw the plants are absolutely flourishing in it. No pun intended :lol:) I also love bottom dwellers! This...

Hi everyone, This is a question to all you experts out there. I own a 29g freshwater heavily planted tank, low tech, with 6 harlequin rasboras (so far, stocking slowly) running for about 6 months now. It's going to have a soft water SE Asian fish and plants, pretty much a SE Asian biotope. My...

What I have is the fluval 305's without the nozzle, but I hitched a rig to have a wider nozzle facing from left to right towards the back of the tank to push the water in that direction, and I want to have something else pushing the water from right to left towards the bottom front of the tank...

The spraybar is what i am trying to avoid. What I want is to have water flow from one end of the tank to the other, basically no random flow here and there, because I want the fish to swim with the current.

Hi folks at AA This is the setup I am currently working on: 29g tank planted Harlequin rasborae Neon Rainbowfish (Hopefully, might have to order from the LFS, if no success, Dwarf Gourami) Fluval 305 w/ output nozzle removed to reduce gph Now here comes the question: I have purposefully...

Hello to everyone at Aquarium Advice! Assuming the poster's aquarium has been properly cycled and is in balance before the U3 was added, then all the new filter will do is share the bioload of the aquarium and process the ammonia, nitrite, nitrate faster. In other words a portion of the...