Aquarium Community College
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Undergravel Filters: The Aquarium Hobby’s Forgotten Workhorse
Undergravel filters used to run almost every aquarium in the hobby. Then somewhere along the way, they became the aquarium equivalent of wood paneling and shag carpet. But were they actually bad… or did the hobby simply move on to more complicated and expensive equipment? A nostalgic, honest look at one of fishkeeping’s most forgotten filtration systems — and why the old hobbyists may not have been completely wrong.
