I'm so very unhappy right now with the hobby. I met my first slimeball scumbag just getting some money however he wishes. Didn't even know it when I met him and picked up his tank, stand, canopy, and all that jazz for $500.
Didn't think of anything back then. Looked great, was solid, obviously was just up and running with excess substrate (he had crushed coral and sand for african cichlids) all over the place, water in the filters and all that. Got it home, did a thorough clean. Looked like some excess substrate had made it's way onto the edges of the stand/aquarium and basically everywhere after he tore it down. So I expected it to leak out a little for maybe a week or two. Just because of humidity and the cracks and crevices in a stand/canopy.
Same sand stuff kept leaking out....for 5 months and with the cooling weather got worse. And then there's a bunch of little drilled holes in it that weren't there before when I picked it up and have had it in my garage the entire time. Yep. Termites and the guy had to have known about it and probably why he was selling it at his old place, literally across the street, with only that tank/stand/canopy and equipment in the place. Not where his 180, 220, 40, and 125 gallon tanks were already. And obviously there for quite some time as well as his 4 dogs.
So, after seeing that, knowing there's at a bare minimum of 5 months termite damage there's no way that I'd trust a 120 gallon full of water gravel decorations canopy and all that on it. And thankfully I kept it in my rather hot florida garage. Not where it was going on my wood floor in cool weather where I 100% know that I would've had a major major problem. Because I have yet to find any evidence and I've torn into everything in my garage where I have about 2000lbs of wood in there. 6 inches away and 2 feet away I have yet to see anything anywhere else. But of course I'm no pro and need a service. But maybe the heat kept them solely in that stand and canopy, though a dresser was 6 inches away I've seen nothing on it at all.
Ironically. After setting it on the curb and taking a huge sharpie writing TERMITES on it. Someone took it. Don't even have to wish something bad on them when people do it to themselves.
That being said, anyone buying somethin from a "Elliot Randon" in Brandon florida, beware. He also said in the email that the tank never leaked but I never leak tested it and it looks like it needs a reseal Glad I didn't even bother and I was going to use the other 120 that I had already leak tested and felt confident with.
Didn't think of anything back then. Looked great, was solid, obviously was just up and running with excess substrate (he had crushed coral and sand for african cichlids) all over the place, water in the filters and all that. Got it home, did a thorough clean. Looked like some excess substrate had made it's way onto the edges of the stand/aquarium and basically everywhere after he tore it down. So I expected it to leak out a little for maybe a week or two. Just because of humidity and the cracks and crevices in a stand/canopy.
Same sand stuff kept leaking out....for 5 months and with the cooling weather got worse. And then there's a bunch of little drilled holes in it that weren't there before when I picked it up and have had it in my garage the entire time. Yep. Termites and the guy had to have known about it and probably why he was selling it at his old place, literally across the street, with only that tank/stand/canopy and equipment in the place. Not where his 180, 220, 40, and 125 gallon tanks were already. And obviously there for quite some time as well as his 4 dogs.
So, after seeing that, knowing there's at a bare minimum of 5 months termite damage there's no way that I'd trust a 120 gallon full of water gravel decorations canopy and all that on it. And thankfully I kept it in my rather hot florida garage. Not where it was going on my wood floor in cool weather where I 100% know that I would've had a major major problem. Because I have yet to find any evidence and I've torn into everything in my garage where I have about 2000lbs of wood in there. 6 inches away and 2 feet away I have yet to see anything anywhere else. But of course I'm no pro and need a service. But maybe the heat kept them solely in that stand and canopy, though a dresser was 6 inches away I've seen nothing on it at all.
Ironically. After setting it on the curb and taking a huge sharpie writing TERMITES on it. Someone took it. Don't even have to wish something bad on them when people do it to themselves.
That being said, anyone buying somethin from a "Elliot Randon" in Brandon florida, beware. He also said in the email that the tank never leaked but I never leak tested it and it looks like it needs a reseal Glad I didn't even bother and I was going to use the other 120 that I had already leak tested and felt confident with.
good luck in your future fishkeeping
