210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

[fishlady]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

yeah....there is a serious epidemic of these here now.....
they come from California i'm told.....
but not to worry.....girlgeek will watch your back....


am still trying to find my happy place...i know it's here somewhere.....

[AnotherWoogie]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

So wait...did the bettas get attacked in the prison yard? O.O

[Delock]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

"screeched like a pre teen girl "

ROFLMAO

I'm laughing with you man...I promise I'm really am!

[imagirlgeek]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

So wait...did the bettas get attacked in the prison yard? O.O

No, but it was very very close.  The Betta bowls landed in the water, on some rocks, with water up to about 1/4" from the top of the bowl.  It was soooo close.

Someone was watching over those Bettas because they are far too 'pretty' to last in the Prison Tank.   :wink:

[Cesar]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

Traci it was the force telling you to come back to the good side!!!!! On a side note good job catching it in time to save everybody from maximum security!

[ImaGuyGeek]

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"screeched like a pre teen girl "

ROFLMAO

I'm laughing with you man...I promise I'm really am!

Traci and FL both said it's okay... so there!!!

I don't have to like spiders and it's normal (I think or like to believe) to have your voice crackle at high pitches

[ImaGuyGeek]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

Uh hum!!! (Deep voice) I'll have you all know, I am NOT in touch with my feminine side... I don't even have one of those, whatever they are  :whistle:  So there!!!

8O Pouncing Cows?  8O

I'm not scared of spiders or pouncing cows

[spyke1969]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

You geeks crack me up. glad to hear everything turned out ok!

[Zulaab]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

Well I am glad everything worked out.  I have a 40 gallon breeder terrarium and a 20T you all can borrow until you get the tank resealed etc..
You will most likely need to goto lowes and get some egg crates and separate all the fish apart that believe life is best spent hunting other fish.

[imagirlgeek]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

Thank you so much Jesper.  You are so nice!  :)

Right now everyone is still in the 210, with the water level at about 50%.  Guygeek made a wooden brace to keep it from bowing and siliconed the glass brace back in place.  We are giving it a couple days before removing the wooden brace, then we'll see how it holds.  We have another tank in the garage waiting to be resealed, and I hope to start working on that one tomorrow night.  If I can get that one done and up in the next few days, we shouldn't have a problem.  But, if the 210 looks to be in too bad a shape to keep housing the fish, we just might take you up on the offer to use your spares.  Again, thank you so much....that is a really great offer!

[Zulaab]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

Just remember these tanks are just tanks.. I dont have heaters, lights or stands etc..
You guys should reseal the tank in the garage, put it on some 2x4's in the garage.. fill it up with water in the garage.. let it sit for a couple of days.. add a pump and heater to it out there.  Run everything you can to it as needed.  Then move all the fish in there.  Move the 210 back into the garage too.  Same thing put it on some 2x4's reseal it.  Fill it with water.. if it holds after a week or two then empty it back out.  Move the tank back into the house, set it back up and move the fish back home.  Tear down the tank in the garage..  Move it into the place (you have now tested that tank for like 3 weeks now) and then move it into place.  Unless you have completely other plans... hehe :)

Let me know if you need help.. I do need to empty the 40 which happens this Friday night or Saturday.. Not sure.   Sunday I am going to the HAS auction.
The only reason I am not going to leave them up and running is that I dont have pumps, heaters or anything else for them, so I have no way of quarantine the fish I would buy at the auction.  I know its synful not to but I might bring them somewhere first where I can let them sit in another hospital tank for a week or two before coming home with me.  We will see.

(The 20 is sitting in the garage (storage) so you can borrow it anytime you need it.)
Another thing.  If you need a place to put fish for a while. You can do the plastic tub thing.  Which come to think about it.. I have a few of those the fish can live in to make sure they are good and happy when I take fish home from the HAS auction.

Man I am thinking of way to many things...

[geoff_tropheus]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

IS this 210 the new tank or a used tank?

[Mzungu]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

I'm laughing, but I'm also glad everyone's all right!  

Edit - Traci, loved the comment about the bettas being too pretty...    

[imagirlgeek]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

IS this 210 the new tank or a used tank?

It's the used one we got a few months ago and resealed the bottom.  The new one is a 240 and in perfect shape.  :)

[Zulaab]

Re: 210 Bowed and Center brace Collapsed Lights and All

You have any pictures of the brace you have installed right now ?
I would like to see what you all did to resolve your problem temporary... and dont tell us you dont have a camera to take the picture with :P :P :P :P