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I just set up a 65 gallon tall tank for my African. Cichlids and I’m using an aqua clear 70 and it is having a tough time keeping the water clear. I bought an extension for the intake tube since it’s a tall tank but I can’t even make out how this filters current runs. It only sucks up debris if...

So my polar blue parrot cichlid and my firemouth are breeding as we speak. This seems to be an odd combo but I would imagine these babies will be beautiful. Anyone else have any weird breeding couples?

Where does everyone position their intake, exhaust and heaters? I’ve seen some videos where they are all set up right next to each other in a corner, and I’ve also seen videos where all three are set up in different corners.

Just curious, where do you all set up your filters and hoses inside and outside your tanks? My filter and hoses are positioned fine, but I’m not sure if my intake inside the tank and the exhaust are in the best spots. Right now they are auctioned a little off center to the right and I have the...

My 75 gallon is in the middle of cycling now and over the last week I’ve gotten a lot of brown algae on some of my artificial plants and decorations. I’ve read that routine 20-25% water changes will help this, but wanted to see if anyone else had some ideas on how to best get rid of it. Does...

Hi everyone I’m John from Boston MA. I just recently got back into aquariums and fishkeeping. Growing up my father always had 2-3 tanks in the house, and I figured why not restart a hobby I used to love so much, especially with all this down time with covid19. So right now I have two tanks up...

Hello all, I have a pen plax cascade 1000 running on my 75 gallon cichlid tank. It’s about a month old and I am going to be replacing the filter media this week. It has three trays and water flows from the bottom up, so the bottom tray has my mechanical media in it including a coarse sponge...