I can not believe what just happened to me. - Aquarium Advice

875mill · 02-12-2006, 01:34 AM

About 2 months ago I aquired a free 29 gallon tank with various accessories. I decided i wanted to try a planted with this one so I've been slowing buying equipment for it for the last month and a half. Got me 3 bags of eco complete, a new fluval 204, new heater, driftwood, ect. ect.
Well thursday I'll finally got my last shipment from big al's a 65 watt light fixture and some ferts for some plants. So i figure its time to go to the pet store now WOOT! I come home from the petstoe with 40 bucks worth of plants and 6 red eye tetras. Walk into the room my tank is in and the MOFO has a huge crack in it. I have no idea how this happened and I'm completely bummed atm LFS is already closed, so i packed everything in my 20 gall for the moment. Guess I'll have to drumm up some more mulah for another tank tommorow. lol murphy's law strike again.

Lonewolfblue · 02-12-2006, 01:54 AM

Ouch, sorry to hear about the tank....

tropicfishman · 02-12-2006, 02:27 AM

what in the world?? thats bizzare.....sorry to hear about that, i know how it feels, when istarted getting back into tanks, i went up in the attic to get out the 10 gallon my friend had given me some time ago and it had a nice football sized hole in it, I was so diapointed

anythingscales · 02-12-2006, 03:45 AM

Why would you buy the fish and plants before the tank was even setup?

875mill · 02-12-2006, 11:32 AM

Its been set up for 2 months cycling.

Tiffi · 02-12-2006, 07:22 PM

That's weired! Did you have styrofoam under the tank and a level stand to distribute the weight and tension? Just trying to help so that kind of horror story desn't happen to you again.

02-12-2006, 08:12 PM

awe that totally sucks. Did it have water in it? Im guessing it did since you already brought the fish home. Did it leak?

**Zagz** · 02-12-2006, 09:03 PM

That sucks! I imagine you also had quite a mess to clean up?

875mill · 02-12-2006, 10:47 PM

yeah it leak about 10 gallons out

toddnbecka · 02-12-2006, 10:55 PM

What kind of stand was it on? Where was the crack?

02-12-2006, 01:34 AM	#1
875mill Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: hanson ky Posts: 144 Images: 5	I can not believe what just happened to me. About 2 months ago I aquired a free 29 gallon tank with various accessories. I decided i wanted to try a planted with this one so I've been slowing buying equipment for it for the last month and a half. Got me 3 bags of eco complete, a new fluval 204, new heater, driftwood, ect. ect. Well thursday I'll finally got my last shipment from big al's a 65 watt light fixture and some ferts for some plants. So i figure its time to go to the pet store now WOOT! I come home from the petstoe with 40 bucks worth of plants and 6 red eye tetras. Walk into the room my tank is in and the MOFO has a huge crack in it. I have no idea how this happened and I'm completely bummed atm LFS is already closed, so i packed everything in my 20 gall for the moment. Guess I'll have to drumm up some more mulah for another tank tommorow. lol murphy's law strike again.

02-12-2006, 01:54 AM	#2
Lonewolfblue Planted Geek Community Mentor Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Wenatchee, WA Posts: 7,858 Images: 7	Ouch, sorry to hear about the tank.... __________________ 26G Medium Planted Community - 65W CF Lighting - Emperor 280 Bio-Wheel - Established Feb 2004 55G Aggressive Community - Filstar XP3 - Established Dec 2005 75G Heavily Planted - Pressurized CO2, 520W Lighting, Filstar XP3 with spraybar - Established Feb 2006 29G Planted - 130W Lighting, Filstar XP2 with spraybar - Established May 2006 5 10G Tanks - Various setups - Tanks Established May-Sep 2006. 3 currently empty. 5.5G Crypt/Java Fern Tank - Established Oct 2006 My 29G Thread : http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=78469 My 75G Thread : http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=70764 My 75G Makeover Thread: http://www.aquariumadvice.com/viewtopic.php?t=87691

02-12-2006, 02:27 AM	#3
tropicfishman Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Ashland KY Posts: 1,890	what in the world?? thats bizzare.....sorry to hear about that, i know how it feels, when istarted getting back into tanks, i went up in the attic to get out the 10 gallon my friend had given me some time ago and it had a nice football sized hole in it, I was so diapointed __________________ I love my clown loaches and red tail shark!!! lol

02-12-2006, 03:45 AM	#4
anythingscales Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: SO CAL Posts: 106	Why would you buy the fish and plants before the tank was even setup? __________________ 60 gallon Hydrocynus vittatus 5" channa gachua 4" Danio malabaricus 3" x2 Balantiocheilus melanopterus 3" Geophagus Altrifons 2" x4 Peacock Cichlids? 3"

02-12-2006, 07:22 PM	#6
Tiffi Aquarium Advice Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: first ST-Germany, now TN-USA Posts: 1,052 Images: 19	That's weired! Did you have styrofoam under the tank and a level stand to distribute the weight and tension? Just trying to help so that kind of horror story desn't happen to you again. __________________ Some time ago in Germany: 2x 15gal tank, 45gal heavily planted Now: 70gal FW, 130W CF, driftwood, black gravel/laterite/flourish tabs/pool filter sand, pressurised CO2, power reactor, 200W = 250W heater, Fluval 304, Eheim prefilter; pH 7, kH 5, gH 9, CO2 ~20mg/l Plants: Cryptocoryne beckettii, wendtii "red", Giant Vals, Nymphaea lotus "zenkeri", Anubias nana "petite", Echinodorus "ozelot", Dwarf Sag, Hygrophila polysperma, Rotala rotundifolia, Limnophila sessiliflora Fishes: 2 Mikrogeophagus ramirezi, Endlers, 4 Otocinclus vittatus, 1pair Pelvicachromis pulcher, 5 Corydoras panda

02-12-2006, 11:32 AM	#5
875mill Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: hanson ky Posts: 144 Images: 5	Its been set up for 2 months cycling.

02-12-2006, 08:12 PM	#7
Guest Posts: n/a	awe that totally sucks. Did it have water in it? Im guessing it did since you already brought the fish home. Did it leak?

02-12-2006, 09:03 PM	#8
Zagz Aquarium Advice Addict Community Admin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Saskatchewan, Canada Posts: 11,257 Images: 92	That sucks! I imagine you also had quite a mess to clean up? __________________ ----------- My Profile Page My tank & fish photos. Have you voted for AA today? Like the advice or comments someone gave you? Show your appreciation with the reputation button!

02-12-2006, 10:47 PM	#9
875mill Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: hanson ky Posts: 144 Images: 5	yeah it leak about 10 gallons out

02-12-2006, 10:55 PM	#10
toddnbecka Aquarium Advice FINatic Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Cumberland, MD Posts: 750	What kind of stand was it on? Where was the crack?

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