Need help!

jordan3548 said:
I just went to Oviedo last Tuesday to pick up some corals. It only took an hour from Plant City I would love to help you but that would require calling into work lol and I only have a mini van although I have fit 180 tanks no problem but about a foot would be hanging out the back youd have to tie it down good.
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Thanks for offering to help, Erick001ace and Tampareefer will be helping me again, I'm just going to get a Home Depot truck till tomorrow, $70+ gas.

you probably got those corals from the same guy I'm getting my tank from? I guess he said he had some corals for sale too.
 
Thanks Ted for letting me borrow the trailer.

Thanks Eric for your "extreme" help yet again.

Well, I'm good for now as far as tanks is concerned, noooooooo more road trips for me :crazy1:

Next time, I'll try to post with plenty of notice, and plan anything for a weekend....but, there isn't going to be a next time....for now at least, I'm ok now with a 6' 180 & 8' 240.
 
xcelprintingcom said:
Pete, not 5am as I am done work today really early today, around 2 or 3pm, this should take from start to finish 5 to 6hrs of hangin with me, so we could be done around 8 or 9pm.....don't scare my potential help :-)
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LMAO NOT 5am huh? It's 10am and Erick isn't even close to being home yet. I tried to warn you that it was going to take WAY longer than you were planning. 5 to 6 hours to deliver a tank and pick up another (2.5 hours away) is a biiiig undertaking. Sorry I couldn't help, but like I was trying to tell you, that is an all day job for a weekend day. If I had went, Shannon wouldn't have been able to leave for work at 8 this morning because she can't just leave the kids alone...I would have been %*$@*%ed!! You would have gotten us both murdered.

For some reason, when doing these big tank moves you always have to plan for the unexpected. Something always goes wrong and costs time. Sorry to hear the stand and canopy didn't fit on the trailer. You can just build new and make it the way you want it. :dance:
 
TampaReefer79 said:
LMAO NOT 5am huh? It's 10am and Erick isn't even close to being home yet. I tried to warn you that it was going to take WAY longer than you were planning. 5 to 6 hours to deliver a tank and pick up another (2.5 hours away) is a biiiig undertaking. Sorry I couldn't help, but like I was trying to tell you, that is an all day job for a weekend day. If I had went, Shannon wouldn't have been able to leave for work at 8 this morning because she can't just leave the kids alone...I would have been %*$@*%ed!! You would have gotten us both murdered.

For some reason, when doing these big tank moves you always have to plan for the unexpected. Something always goes wrong and costs time. Sorry to hear the stand and canopy didn't fit on the trailer. You can just build new and make it the way you want it. :dance:
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Yup, it's too bad Erick didn't have access to his trailer, the stand was hideous but was built like a tank, I just wanted to bring it home for its bones and skin it with 1/4" sandply & trim it like I did my other, but in anycase for now I'll just spend $20 in 2x4's, 2x6's, 2x8's and make the frame and skin it in about 2 to 3 months....not a huge loss there.

I was more ****ed at the fact the seller didn't disclose 2 leaky bulkheads, it has a center overflow, he had the tank filled for over a month you could tell by the stench, but he put more water in and went into the overflow and went through the plumbing that wasn't capped off, however i touched the bulkheads, 4, and 2 were very wet, 1 of which had tons of silicone over it and some hard white stuff under the silicone (l'll post pics in seperate thread), he said they had been loosened, that might be true for the one that didn't have silicone, but its obvious the siliconed one had be bumped at some point causing it to leak....so that made me about kill this guy considering I drove 107 miles to buy it and $150 to Erick in gas/etc., so I had to decide what I was going to do as I had still not delivered the cube, and Tom said I could just keep the cube if I wanted so I didn't go home empty handed.

But, talking to Tom and Erick, they both say a leaky bulkhead is nothing critical, not like a split seam....so I should be ok? So they helped me make a more informed decision and I took it.

But, I'm glad you didn't go, considering things "didn't" go as smooth as I hoped they did.

I am freaking beat though, no sleep, and clocked in....unbelievable the crazy things one ill do for a tank.
 
erick001ace said:
just walked in the door an ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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LOL That's what you all get for starting some insane project at 8pm. LOL LOL LOL LOL Had I not been home at 7:45 when Shannon had to leave for her 5th day at her new job to be with the kids, you all would be reading the story in the St. Pete Times about a Pasco County woman that went nuts and killed 3 men with a flip flop for being out all night driving fish tanks around the entire state of Florida.
 
xcelprintingcom said:
yeah but for the record, we been done with this since 7:30am, not 1pm, where'd you go?
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I thought you guys didn't leave Orlando until 7am? Driving home is still part of the trip! :lol: In Erick's case, he just drove right to class from your house and barely made it to his 11am class. LOL Both of you are nuts...neither one of ya's went to bed last night.
 
TampaReefer79 said:
I thought you guys didn't leave Orlando until 7am? Driving home is still part of the trip! :lol: In Erick's case, he just drove right to class from your house and barely made it to his 11am class. LOL Both of you are nuts...neither one of ya's went to bed last night.
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No actually we were done at my place between 7:30/8am because I actually started work at 9am.

Hey its not like it was planned like this, forewarning or not, as you said: no one plans for things to work out horribly, but in anycase lesson learned is never to do during week and so late in the day....unless it's actually local, this was a 2.25hr drive each way, plus all the time wasted looking at tank, re-negotiating, almost knocking out lying seller :uzi: :worried:(really), etc, etc.
 
xcelprintingcom said:
No actually we were done at my place between 7:30/8am because I actually started work at 9am.

Hey its not like it was planned like this, forewarning or not, as you said: no one plans for things to work out horribly, but in anycase lesson learned is never to do during week and so late in the day....unless it's actually local, this was a 2.25hr drive each way, plus all the time wasted looking at tank, re-negotiating, almost knocking out lying seller :uzi: :worried:(really), etc, etc.
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Dealing with these big tank moves, plan for the best and expect the worst. You kept thinking I was all full of doom and gloom...I was just trying to get you to PLAN on problems arising. LOL

How bad is the new tank compared to what you THOUGHT the condition was?
 
TampaReefer79 said:
How bad is the new tank compared to what you THOUGHT the condition was?
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The seller never sent good pics, we spoke several times, he understood how far I was driving, described the tank to as "great condition", said no scratches, that I would have to look hard to find them, said it had water in it so potential buyers could see there was no leak, which as mentioned did seem the water was in it for a month+, the stand I already knew wasn't pretty, I just wanted the bones, but was solid....he just failed to say that 2 of the bulkheads were leaking, and that one was caked with silicone...instead when I discovered it as I was being anal about looking at every square inch of the tank, he says they had just been loosened mistakenly....he said the truth about everything else, just didn't disclose the bulkhead issue.

I got with it 4 175w Coralvue MH Mogul bulbs 2 14k, 2 20k, and sockets, seller reports only have 2 months use, 4 VHO bulbs, 2 ARO vho ballasts, 1 ARO 96w T5 ballast, 1 ARO 55w PC Ballast.

I like the tank, I was just scared of buying a tank with a bulkhead leak...it is the length I wanted after all....I will post pictures later on with some questions.
 
What size bulkheads? Most reef stores should have some in stock up to 1" piping (standard All Glass or Oceanic). Larger sizes can be ordered - American Plastics if you can't find them local. If the threads aren't chewed up, gaskets are common enough or easy to make for that job.
 
TampaSnooker said:
What size bulkheads? Most reef stores should have some in stock up to 1" piping (standard All Glass or Oceanic). Larger sizes can be ordered - American Plastics if you can't find them local. If the threads aren't chewed up, gaskets are common enough or easy to make for that job.
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I'm still a noob, not familiar like you guys in if it's a 1" or 1.5", I guess I'll have to measure, in anycase that tank is going to sit for anywhere from a month to 3 months while I complete the 180, but at some point I guess I need to address those bulkheads to get it fixed.
 
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