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No offence taken, thanks for the advice. However the under bite you can see on one of the Oscars in the video is due to a previous injury to the jaw when the Oscar was much younger. It has always struggled slightly with this and its laboured swallowing can been seen in the videos above. I do not...

It is difficult to say as my nitrate testing frequency is patchy at best but I can confidently say that my water change schedule has approximately halved(20% weekly to 20% every 2 weeks) with no long term increase in the nitrate levels. For me this was the key idea as I am not always present to...

The Oscars are approx 8 inches each with the Pleco around 10. My main problem at the moment is the huge number of convict fry that are not yet getting eaten by the oscars. The convict fry are still being partially protected by the parents but roam all over the tank so I think soon they will...

Approximately 9 months ago I implemented a DIY algae scrubber in my 600L Oscar tank in a bid to reduce the necessity for water changes and decrease my nitrate levels. The tank had been established for over a year at this stage and I was having trouble keeping the nitrates under control. It was...

Videos of feeding time in my 600L Oscar tank, tank dimensions are 1500mm(width) x 800mm(height) x 500mm(depth). More details of the overall tank system including DIY filter can be found here: http://imgur.com/a/xa9Dh The main diet of the adult fish is frozen peas and prawns along with...

Try to get a very sharp hole saw bit designed for metal rather than wood. Much of the cracking may be coming from the larger teeth used in the wood bits digging in and causing stress in the acrylic sheet. Another thing to take care of is the heat, it can be useful to use some cutting fluid to...

Just some thoughts on this idea, is the extra complexity of suspending this above the tank worth the small amount of extra piping required to hide it under/behind the tank? Access to clean the coarse/fine prefilter will need to be regular and it will be more awkward with a horizontal design. It...

Using plants to help reduce nitrate levels is used by many people but an issue is the positioning of the plants correctly at the top of the aquarium. As mentioned earlier it takes a carefully designed lid system hold the plants, allowing the roots of the plants to be submerged while also...

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