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[AquaticLife] I really messed up this time!

How unlevel is it? Can you take pics from front and side to show it? Do you have hardwood floors, tile, carpeting, other?
If it’s only a little unlevel, it won’t cause any danger but might not be as aesthetically pleasing. Usually, filling the water until the water line is hidden by the […]

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[AquaticLife] Styrofoam Under A Tank?

When I lived on the second floor of an old farmhouse, and had ready access to hardwood flooring, I laid down the flooring perpendicular to the extant flooring (may have been hardwood, but looked like pine) against what I hoped was a load bearing wall (the rooms were larger than the age of the house […]

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[AquaticLife] Styrofoam Under A Tank?

\Steve// already preemptively answered this but foam will not level a tank. Any compression of the foam will be done across the entire piece of foam equally so if the stand is not level before the foam, it won’t be afterwards.
You are better off using shims under the bottom of the stand to level it […]

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Re:Temporary housing??

Well, I don’t know how big your Oscar is, but Oscars are pretty resilient and adaptable so you could use the Rubbermaid or even a significantly smaller tank if it’s just going to be a few days’ time in respect to “temporary” - just be sure to include a fair amount of his current tank’s […]

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Temporary housing??

I currently house my Oscar in my 55gal tank in my kitchen. Well we are redoing our floors on Tuesday and have already begun to rip up the old floors. My question is when I dismantle his tank what should I put him in? Will a 40 gal rubbermaid tub work or […]

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Temporary housing??

I currently house my Oscar in my 55gal tank in my kitchen. Well we are redoing our floors on Tuesday and have already begun to rip up the old floors. My question is when I dismantle his tank what should I put him in? Will a 40 gal rubbermaid tub work or […]

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