sir_dudeguy
10/13/2006, 08:23 PM
Well on tuesday my 55 gallon tank sprung a leak and almost caught my room on fire. When i found it, the temp was only 68 so i expected to see lots of stuff die. Well i started frantically taking it apart and trying to rush the stuff to my other tanks.
Thanks to the locals (and having 2 other cycled tanks) i was able to get rid of my diamond goby, and put my 2 clowns in a 29g tank along w/30 lbs of rock, and put my sixline wrasse into my 40 breeder which has been set up a couple months now. The clowns would have gone in there too but there's already a pair of black percs so they couldnt. The diamond gobie had to go because the 40 has a 4 inch sandbed and no rock touching the bottom..he'd cause a rockslide in 2 seconds. The 30 has hardly any sand at all so i didnt think that was the greatest idea for a burrowing fish.
Anyways, i got everything switched over to the other tanks and got rid of the gobie and was SOOO releaved that nothing died due to this.
WRONG! yesterday morning i fed my fish in the 40...the 2 black percs and now the sixline. The sixline was swimming around and BAM! got sucked up a powerhead.
So just a warning to all you people who think your fish will be fine with no covers on the powerheads...get them covered! I had that wrasse in the 55 with no powerhead covers for SIX MONTHS, and nothing happened...then the day after i move him he gets caught.
So dont look over the small stupid little things like that. That was a 24 dollar mistake over a piece of plastic that might cost 12 cents :)
Thanks to the locals (and having 2 other cycled tanks) i was able to get rid of my diamond goby, and put my 2 clowns in a 29g tank along w/30 lbs of rock, and put my sixline wrasse into my 40 breeder which has been set up a couple months now. The clowns would have gone in there too but there's already a pair of black percs so they couldnt. The diamond gobie had to go because the 40 has a 4 inch sandbed and no rock touching the bottom..he'd cause a rockslide in 2 seconds. The 30 has hardly any sand at all so i didnt think that was the greatest idea for a burrowing fish.
Anyways, i got everything switched over to the other tanks and got rid of the gobie and was SOOO releaved that nothing died due to this.
WRONG! yesterday morning i fed my fish in the 40...the 2 black percs and now the sixline. The sixline was swimming around and BAM! got sucked up a powerhead.
So just a warning to all you people who think your fish will be fine with no covers on the powerheads...get them covered! I had that wrasse in the 55 with no powerhead covers for SIX MONTHS, and nothing happened...then the day after i move him he gets caught.
So dont look over the small stupid little things like that. That was a 24 dollar mistake over a piece of plastic that might cost 12 cents :)