oxygen exposure

I have a bottling wand connected to my racking arm via a bit of silicon tubing. Lid on fermenter cracked open. Open valve on racking arm but no flow. Take away bottling wand and lots of flow. Confirm no blockage in wand. There's some sort of air issue and I think of the little hole in the...

Bit of a beginner here so apologies if this is a simple question. Equipment-wise I have a 7 gal SS Brew Bucket for fermenting, and am debating between bottling straight out of the bucket's spigot or transferring into another bucket and bottling from that... Thoughts in favour of straight from...

Ok, so I just noticed that my airlock fell off and I'm sure its been close to a week from the last time I checked. I'm about a month and a half into the brew, what should I do? Do I just recap it and let it go or do I need to dump it. I cant tell if its infected but its still slightly foamy on...