poor you,cleanup is gonna be a pain,but hey ricky is back and you still have your first sw fish and others.(i think sometimes it is better to look on the bright side instead,it makes a disaster seem less disastery) i wish you luck with your fish and i hope it all turns out okay!!!
YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
- Thread starter snailrider
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Oh My GOSH! How could something like this happen? You would imagine this would be a very rare occurrence, but several people on this thread seem to have experienced a similar issue in their lives. I can't imagine that a rock tipping forward would cause this glass to break. Was it a thinner glass? What brand was your aquarium?
Here is a pic of ricky and Lucy in their new home. They have a few friends now, and the Velvet Damsels are different tanks at the moment. They will stay separated, as I believe I may try a few corals now.
I may fix the 225, did some checking, and I can take the bottom and use it for the back, cut the other three sides down, and make a floating bottom for the tank. It would cut the tank to just around 200 gallons, and would not be as deep by 6 inches. Just alot of work right now, and not a priority.
I may fix the 225, did some checking, and I can take the bottom and use it for the back, cut the other three sides down, and make a floating bottom for the tank. It would cut the tank to just around 200 gallons, and would not be as deep by 6 inches. Just alot of work right now, and not a priority.
This is part of the reason I hate cats... they tend to destroy things. The rest of the reason is that I'm horribly allergic to them lol. I can't stay over my girlfriends house with her 1 cat more than a few hours before I feel like my head is going to explode.
My girlfriend said the same thing when i showed her this thread. She seems to think that under water, the rocks don't weigh enough to cause catastrophic failure. I tried to explain thats not the case but couldn't really back up my explanation with any science...
I think this is a lesson to everyone that you should have at LEAST a spare ten gallon set up at all times! Even if all it contains are a few chunks of LR, or if it is a FW tank, a handful of snails. I have had to do the "grab and toss" acclimation method before, but having more than one tank has certainly saved me some grief.
Kristina
Kristina
So really this could happen from a 5 lb rock just tipping forward and hitting the glass? As I look over at the rock I now have stacked to the top of the tank and wonder if that's just a really bad idea...? It's stacked as a back drop in a tall tank.
It's all about the energy. No a 5lb rock doesn't have that much energy when it falls a few inches in water. BUT, if all that energy is concentrated on one small point (say a sharp point on the rock) that does hit the glass, then you can get this. If the same rock fell and hit a large flat surface in the sand, then all the energy is spread out over a large area and nothing much happens.
