So I have a 10gallon hospital/recovery tank in my basement. It currently houses a RTB shark and a gibby pleco, each with their own problems, but both still pretty small fish. They both basically just needed a time out for one reason or another from my larger tank.
I have a 15gallon sitting on my shelf collecting dust. I got it from a friend of mine a while back, just never used it. so.. i'm like... hmmm... maybe i should just switch this 10g over to the 15g, they'd have a bigger footprint, eventhough it's only a 4"x2" increase, anything bigger than a 10g looks like a nice step up.
So i filled the 15g in the bathtub to see if it had any obvious leaks. couldn't find any, but i did by no means do a thorough check.
so i decide to roll the dice and just assume this thing is water tight... oh boy...
so switched everything over to this 15g, (tank is on top of a dresser, i layed a towel down underneath it first, JUST IN CASE). so everything looks fine. fish are doing great, they seem to be enjoying the bigger space... i leave them alone for a while and go upstairs, watch somethin on the tele... then i go back downstairs to see how they are doing, and the towel looks damp, and sure enough, it' soaked, and it's dripping off onto the carpet... RED ALERT, leaking tank.
so i did the quickest switch i ever did back to my 10g, sand, deco, fish, and hardware in 5-10 minutes. poor fish, i had to net them twice in one evening. i felt horrible.
the moral, if you have ANY doubt that your tank is going to hold water, it probably won't. never gamble, if this had been a bigger tank i may have been in trouble.
I have a 15gallon sitting on my shelf collecting dust. I got it from a friend of mine a while back, just never used it. so.. i'm like... hmmm... maybe i should just switch this 10g over to the 15g, they'd have a bigger footprint, eventhough it's only a 4"x2" increase, anything bigger than a 10g looks like a nice step up.
So i filled the 15g in the bathtub to see if it had any obvious leaks. couldn't find any, but i did by no means do a thorough check.
so i decide to roll the dice and just assume this thing is water tight... oh boy...
so switched everything over to this 15g, (tank is on top of a dresser, i layed a towel down underneath it first, JUST IN CASE). so everything looks fine. fish are doing great, they seem to be enjoying the bigger space... i leave them alone for a while and go upstairs, watch somethin on the tele... then i go back downstairs to see how they are doing, and the towel looks damp, and sure enough, it' soaked, and it's dripping off onto the carpet... RED ALERT, leaking tank.
so i did the quickest switch i ever did back to my 10g, sand, deco, fish, and hardware in 5-10 minutes. poor fish, i had to net them twice in one evening. i felt horrible.
the moral, if you have ANY doubt that your tank is going to hold water, it probably won't. never gamble, if this had been a bigger tank i may have been in trouble.
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- the heater is HOT when you leave it switched on out of water. It's not a good idea to pick it up in your hand after you've broken it.....
