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[dschflier]

For people who didn't see my dilemma about a month ago my 210 gallon tank sprung a leak. I succesfully moved everything with very little even getting damaged. I dont think I lost a fish. I built my first stand and although it is not perfect I am very proud of it. Thanks to everyone who helped I will be posting more on this in my new tank build thread.

 

I cleaned all of my old sand and added about 3 bags of new sand. I drilled 2 x 1.5 " bulkheads and filled the tank just bellow the bulkheads. I was going to wait about a week before slowly combing the water from my 210 to the rest of my setup. That was where I left the setup around 1 in the morning.

 

This morning I didn't go down and look at the tanks because my family and I went to the baltimore aquarium(How appropriate). I get home to find some water on the ground and that my GSA skimmer had overflowed some time during the time I was gone.

 

Last night when I was adding water I adjusted my skimmer becuse it wasn't getting any skimate. I never do this because it has run perfectly for years. I think I wasn't getting any skimmate because I had changed so much water and pushed older water into the 210 in-order to fill it up. I finally get to look at the tanks today and see water on my floor to make maters a bit worse the autotopoff pushed a bunch of Kalk into the water as well. I think the skimmer pushed out about 10 gallons of water.

 

It dosn't look like anything has been hurt and I decided to begin combining my systems tonight by partially opening one of my valves to help stabalize the water. I will keepp my fingers crossed and add my tangs back to the 210 shortly. I'll keep you all posted.

[jason the filter freak]

good to see you're handling everything so well

[www.fishnreef.com]

5% water change if 10 gallons is your count (ok...4.76%) + over-kalked 5% @ 20 ph (?) ~ 10% change in pH? From 8.0 say to 9.0? If so, nice water change...check you salinity!