Aside from waiting for your new tank to cycle with existing media, I personally would dose with Seachem Prime to help neutralize the ammonia until BB catch up. IMO that's just additional safety for your fishes. Good luck. BTW, any pictures of this PVC housing?
potential stock wipe out...help!
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I don't know how to get photos onto the forum and even if i did my very old nokia phone dosen't take photos (its a works phone which i haven't paid a bill on in 14 yrs so can't grumble). But to give you an idea of the tank involved, just put in "fivestar aquarium tanks" into the search engine. You'll get the idea of the tank design regarding the PVC housing because a lot of their tanks are similar. Its seems to me that the glass tank is housed in the frame but it is the bottom of the framework which rests on the actual base, NOT the tank itself, which would be better. So the tank has slipped in the housing at one side and indeed come to rest, with a jolt, on the actual base. When it met with the base it snapped a PVC strut down in the base which can be clearly seen when you stick your head down in the sump area. Like i said, very scary, the weight involved it could have been devastating. The tank is likely to get taken away and i certainly don't want it replacing with another one so i'm already thinking of getting a 7x2x2 glass tank and building my own canopy and base. With hindsight i should have done this in the first place rather than rely on some chinese guys on the other side of the world. But we all learn from our mistakes in this hobby right, and we all become better hobbyists as a result.
No worries and true about continuous learning. OK, I was in Vancouver BC once and wondered into a lfs with those types of tanks. I see how one would like the finished look, but you're right about going with your own canopy and stand that will hold.
