RE: My Series of Disasters!

["Mark Pearlscott" <mark@pearlscott.com>]

If they were my fish, I'd move them, but be very good about doing water
changes every couple of days for a while.  Sorry to hear about your
difficulties.  A small suggestion is to get some thin Styrofoam from the
hardware store and place it under your tank (between tank and stand).
This will help with any irregularities between the tank bottom and the
tank stand.

Good luck,

Mark
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> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:20 PM
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> Subject: My Series of Disasters!
> 
> Last week (June 23 to be exact) while watching the baseball game on
TV, I
> looked at my 29T and the water level was down about 2" from where it
was
> following a water change the day before. Whoops! There must be a leak.
> Sure enough! I set about moving fish to other tanks while hubby called
the
> LFS. Yes, they had another 29T in stock.
> He went and got the new tank while I drained the old one. By the time
he
> got back we were both exhausted. Since he gets up at 4:30 in the
morning,
> we decided to go to bed. I moved filters and driftwood to the
overcrowded
> 10G tanks. In the morning I set about moving the gravel from one tank
to
> the other and managed to have things up and running again. Problem? It
> took about 18 hours to get everything finished.
> By then, I'd lost the bacteria in/on the gravel, I'm sure. Sooo...we
went
> through a mini-cycle and things were really looking good yesterday.
> Are you ready for this? I woke up this morning to find the water level
in
> the NEW 29T down about 4"; I think that translates to something like
6.5
> gallons of water in the living room floor - AGAIN! Of course I had to
wait
> for the LFS to open, meanwhile moving fish, draining tank and, as long
as
> I had the Python out, changing water in all the other tanks.
> I called the LFS at 9:00 sharp! No, they don't have another 29T in
stock,
> but have a 37T (same footprint). The general concensus is - and I have
to
> agree - is that the weight is somehow distorting the metal frame
(which
> incidentally was level) and causing the tank(s) to leak. I know that
when
> I looked over there last night I could see daylight between the center
of
> the stand and the center of the tank - not a good sign!
> So, since I *still* can't drive (I had foot surgey in April), I sit
here
> waiting for hubby to come home so that we can 1) go buy a *good* stand
for
> the 37T (more water - that's good ) and drag all that stuff home, 2)
put
> the shower doors back up (they were taken down because I couldn't get
into
> the tub), 3) move his desk back against the wall (the shower doors
have
> been back there to protect them), 4) move the little (2" X 6")
bookcase
> back where it belongs (next to his desk), 5) put the stand where the
> bookcase is/was) and re-establish my poor silver dollars and cherry
barbs.
> I've already lost two silver dollars (they were being treated for a
fungus
> when all this started on 6/23 and were obviously over-stressed with
all
> the activity of the past ten days and succumbed).
> Will this ever end???
> And now, the question: Once again, I've lost most of my biofilter.
What
> I'll have left is two pads of filter floss 4" X 12", a small bag of
> ceramic beads (the contents are more than a snack-size ZipLoc and less
> than sandwich-size). I can pull the filters from 5 other tanks (I
didn't
> wash them when I changed water this morning) and that's about it! I
really
> hesitate to dump this entire fish load (5 silver dollars, 10 cherry
barbs,
> and 1 bristlenose pleco)with no more than that to support it. My
options
> are to do that or move some of the fish to the 37T and leave the
others
> seriously overcrowded in 10G tanks. What do you think?
> If I were to move all of them tonight, would AmmoLock help or hinder
the
> cycling process? Where is BioSpira now when I need them?
> Your thoughts?
> 
> 
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