Hey, I suppose I could've asked this is the general forums but since I know some of you guys in here personally I think I'll just ask it here.
Last night around midnight I just happened to, for no real reason at all, look under my tank and noticed that there was a leak where the overflow pipe goes through the bottom of the tank. I tried to tighten it up but somehow ended up making a real doozy of a leak. The tank has been up and running with no issues at all for over a year and now that I'd finally gotten it looking pretty good and added a whole bunch of sps frags in the last month, the stupid thing springs a leak.
But I digress, I was up all night moving all the livestock into a 30g rubbermaid container and all the live rock into the sump. I think I got the leak taken care of, although I caused the return to leak in the same place when I was moving the tank around, basically the nut had just loosened up but the way it runs through the stand I had to empty the tank and move it to get to the bottom of the overflow. Why do they sell tanks drilled on the bottom? My life would be so much better if the holes had been in the back of the tank instead of the bottom - and my boss wouldn't be asking me why I'm dragging today...
My question is, are the corals - about 20 various small SPS frags, a couple LPS brains, and a huge frogspawn going to be ok with a day or so of darkness? I already don't trust the structural integrity of the rubbermaid container they're all living in and really don't want to set my heavy canopy on top. I know some people even recommend going lights out for a couple of days per month for various reasons but my concern is that the SPS frags are all rather small and only recently acclimated - maybe a month or so. I have two small power heads and a heater in there along with an airstone...
I assume the 6 fish will be fine in there, it's 30 gallons and while they're certainly not all small fish but they're not huge either. I'm keeping it covered and not feeding them hoping that'll keep ammonia down - does that sound logical?
Hopefully my leak really is fixed - i filled up the overflow with water and left a towel under it during my 2 hour nap this morning - but my neighbor downstairs would really hate it if it starts raining in his bedroom...
Yeah, I'm freaking out just because everything is shutdown for like 24 hours - this hobby has made me neurotic...
Wow, what a long rambling mess this post has become...
Thanks!
Last night around midnight I just happened to, for no real reason at all, look under my tank and noticed that there was a leak where the overflow pipe goes through the bottom of the tank. I tried to tighten it up but somehow ended up making a real doozy of a leak. The tank has been up and running with no issues at all for over a year and now that I'd finally gotten it looking pretty good and added a whole bunch of sps frags in the last month, the stupid thing springs a leak.
But I digress, I was up all night moving all the livestock into a 30g rubbermaid container and all the live rock into the sump. I think I got the leak taken care of, although I caused the return to leak in the same place when I was moving the tank around, basically the nut had just loosened up but the way it runs through the stand I had to empty the tank and move it to get to the bottom of the overflow. Why do they sell tanks drilled on the bottom? My life would be so much better if the holes had been in the back of the tank instead of the bottom - and my boss wouldn't be asking me why I'm dragging today...
My question is, are the corals - about 20 various small SPS frags, a couple LPS brains, and a huge frogspawn going to be ok with a day or so of darkness? I already don't trust the structural integrity of the rubbermaid container they're all living in and really don't want to set my heavy canopy on top. I know some people even recommend going lights out for a couple of days per month for various reasons but my concern is that the SPS frags are all rather small and only recently acclimated - maybe a month or so. I have two small power heads and a heater in there along with an airstone...
I assume the 6 fish will be fine in there, it's 30 gallons and while they're certainly not all small fish but they're not huge either. I'm keeping it covered and not feeding them hoping that'll keep ammonia down - does that sound logical?
Hopefully my leak really is fixed - i filled up the overflow with water and left a towel under it during my 2 hour nap this morning - but my neighbor downstairs would really hate it if it starts raining in his bedroom...
Yeah, I'm freaking out just because everything is shutdown for like 24 hours - this hobby has made me neurotic...
Wow, what a long rambling mess this post has become...
Thanks!
