FrankSlapperinni
Fish Herder
No 
TANK LEAK! Need advice.
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Semper Fi: If that happened to me, I don't know what I'd do.
One of the reasons I've always been afraid of buying a large tank is because of just that - I also think of what it would have been like if it was a 50 gallon instead of a 10 that doused my living room.
My guinea pigs are really the heroes. They were squeaking at the dripping/pouring noise for about 30 minutes and I finally said at 2:30am before I was going to go to sleep, "Let me go say goodnight to them and give them a treat so they'll shut up."
All the fish would have certainly been dead - and the livingroom destroyed - and a day at work lost to cleanup - if not for them (considering that I usually just go straight to bed.)
Update:
I transferred the water and fish into the new tank. Surprisingly, the levels were fine when I got home since I saved the tank water and gravel (w/ the beneficial bacteria). I double filtered the tank for about five hours and saw a significant change in the cloudyness as everythng settled.
Before bed I place the fish in and wished them luck since I knew they'd die in a filterless basin and I had no other choice but to either a) put them in the tank, b) keep them in the basin - I have no way to get them to a LFS that would cooperate since the closest one is PetSmart (and I highly doubt that they would accomodate me in the slightest.)
This morning the tank looked much better, the fish were active and all went for their food. Casulaties: One zebra danio, and one bumblebee gobie.
One of the reasons I've always been afraid of buying a large tank is because of just that - I also think of what it would have been like if it was a 50 gallon instead of a 10 that doused my living room.
My guinea pigs are really the heroes. They were squeaking at the dripping/pouring noise for about 30 minutes and I finally said at 2:30am before I was going to go to sleep, "Let me go say goodnight to them and give them a treat so they'll shut up."
All the fish would have certainly been dead - and the livingroom destroyed - and a day at work lost to cleanup - if not for them (considering that I usually just go straight to bed.)
Update:
I transferred the water and fish into the new tank. Surprisingly, the levels were fine when I got home since I saved the tank water and gravel (w/ the beneficial bacteria). I double filtered the tank for about five hours and saw a significant change in the cloudyness as everythng settled.
Before bed I place the fish in and wished them luck since I knew they'd die in a filterless basin and I had no other choice but to either a) put them in the tank, b) keep them in the basin - I have no way to get them to a LFS that would cooperate since the closest one is PetSmart (and I highly doubt that they would accomodate me in the slightest.)
This morning the tank looked much better, the fish were active and all went for their food. Casulaties: One zebra danio, and one bumblebee gobie.
Glad to hear it all worked out. Keep an eye on the water for the next week or so, just to make sure that you don't get any ammonia or nitrite spikes.
BettaBoyz
Fishaholic
MizPlaya, that was incredibley rude and annoying. wait for someone to respond to you, don't demand it!
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