URGENT HELP NEEDED

dixienut

dixienut

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i have a leaker, my 30long

in a double stand the top one

been seing a loss of water larger than the usual evapor,..

went downstairs to check furnace and seen a puddle and a constant drip,..

how is the best way to transfer,
to a tank i already have set up fw, and change it out or buy a replacement for the stand?

if a 30l how do i empty the old one and fill the new one??????
 
I'd siphon as much water out as is practical, saving it in buckets or a drum, then pull other "attached" stuff (plumbing) and set the tank on the floor on a couple of trashbags or whatever. Put new tank (and stand, if original stand is MDF that is now swelling, warping etc) in place, add some new water & some bucket water. Then start transferring stuff from old tank to new tank, using the remaining water buckets/drum/whatever to temporarily hold stuff that can't go straight into the new tank.
 
well may be i have a leaker skimmer???? it was wet before i dried it off but couldn't see where any water for a few days and today it seems wet again????

the salt creep is all over the bottom rim of the tank so it could be from the skimmer??????

i bought it used from this forum and its a coralife 65

i had it set up for a few weeks now and never noticed anything bad,.. it seems wet under the return pipe the part that is at the bottom of the plastic,.. anyone here know about these?
 
I'd get a new trashcan or rubbermaid, clean it out well and transfer all livestock to the bucket with tank water. Empty out the gravel and decorations into a bucket, move the tank, put the new one on the stand, put gravel back in, fill with tap water (will probably make a mess) gravel vac/water change, fill tank with leftover/saved tank water and tap water, put fish back in. shouldn't take more than an hour or two on a tank that size.
 
thanks, Squawkbert,...... but i'm now not sure which it is??????

the stand is an iron one

i bought the tank new in 2006

skimmer well i tried to save by buying used,..

the wetness is at the very bottom of the plastic i thought the water was from the tubing that goes into the foam but really not sure, its against the tank and can't tell,. so i turned it off to see if i still have a reduction in the water,...
 
Ninja'd....

I had to move my CSS65 into my sump because it would overflow out the top periodically. If you can do that, then not as much of a problem if it leaks a little bit.
 
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this is the tanks set up last year with both fw, they have better tops and lights now,.. Now the top is sw, i wanted to turn the bottom into a sump but not real sure how to do it, can i use it as a 30gallon long without baffel type dividers?

i have a hob rudge with light and stuff but do i really need the dividers? or can it be another tank just with an overflow? and return

all of which i know NOTHING about trying to read and understand here on the forums, but really not sure, about it, i really like the turff thread and would like to do that but really not sure how,

anyone here in laymans terms can tell me how to make the bottom tank a sump without harming the tank, and getting the water in and out without a lot of cash???

or brains..........lol at least about this stuff,.... and have it a turf thingy?????
 
Well, first you'll need a HOB overflow, and some sort of return pump. If you want to build a turf scrubber, you could use the drain from the tank to feed it rather than using a second pump. I would porbably just turn the bottom tank into a big fuge with a DSB, but you'd need to put in 2 baffles probably, so you have a skimmer section where the water drains into on one end, the fuge area in the middle, then the return pump on the other end.
 
well today after i shut the skimmer off, the water level is still where i left it so it is the skimmer that is leaking somewhere,..
at least its better than the tank,........lol....

just not sure if the skimmer is broke or just pouring water out the outlet,insted of the hose that is in the outlet,..
well thank you guys for the help, nice to know there are heros out there in ac land waiting to help so poor fishkeepers like us can count on them:thm:
 
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