What are your plans for backup if equipment fails?

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Katie_Ca

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Hi all,

I was wondering if you guys have backup plans for in case equipment fail? I'm not referring to a heater or air pump failure, those can be easily replaced, but something that takes longer to restore, like a tank leak, sump leak or cannister filter failure. Do you keep an unused tank for backup in case your fish need to be moved, or a second running filter? I would imagine the bigger your tank is, the more you have considered this?
 
I have two fish each in it's own 125, each has two filters. So if one let's go the other filter will be fine till Amazon delivers the parts the next day. If both go at the same time I would put a divider in the other tank and they would share a tank till parts arrive.
 
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I have a 50 gallon industrial drum that i bought at home depot for water changes. I've used it in the past to temporarily house fish when something when wrong with the main tank. I've also seen people use those rubbermaid 100 gallon stock tanks from ace hardware to store koi in their garage during winter. Whenever i upgraded tanks I always made sure i had a temporary home for all the live stock if the worst of the worst would happen.

For filtration, you could always buy an ac110 hob filter and leave it running in one of your tanks so you'll always have a back up filter thats already seeded with BB.
 
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Honestly I'm just screwed Haha. I do have extra sponge filters in the tanks to help with bio load if a filter fails. I would prob just do extra wcs until Amazon comes in clutch with a new filter or I'd prob run to my lfs
 
cigarettes to reduce my stress and ... yeah, thats it actually

could probably fix a bath tub somewhere.
 
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SandNukka15 said:
Honestly I'm just screwed Haha. I do have extra sponge filters in the tanks to help with bio load if a filter fails. I would prob just do extra wcs until Amazon comes in clutch with a new filter or I'd prob run to my lfs
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Yeah, I have a running sponge filter but I'm thinking of selling my backup tank due to lack of real estate. Even a new tank around 100 g needs to be ordered and takes at least 2 days to arrive.
 
If a tank ruptures you run to tractor supply and grab a stock tank...then to the liquor store. Electrical a battery backup or generator. Filter that's why you need redundancy. Sump leak you shut your ball valves and this is where a leak detector comes in handy.

There's really no saving yourself if a tank ruptures or canister seam splits. You're going to have a flood.
 
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Its good to have one of those giant plastic storage containers around and a HOB filter.

If you filter using a canister filter, it is good to have a spare canister filter around; those sunsun/aquatop ones are a cheap backup.
 
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