Tank Leaking Need Temporary Housing Ideas

[pharmaecopia]

Just discovered that my 150 started leaking. Luckily it is a slow leak so I managed to catch it about half full. Of the fish that were in there most are being moved to other setups. The trouble I have is with my 6 cuban gars. I don't trust them in any of my established tanks for various reasons. SoI need some housing options until I get the tank repaired. The gars are all between 12" and 16".

I was thinking about getting a larger rubbermaid container and using this for the couple weeks it will probably take to fix the tank. I've used these in the past without problems for treating individual fish. Any other ideas?

 

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I've used this storage tote from big k or kmart once, I believe it was a 50 gallon for 17 bucks

 

[Gervahlt]

You could made a temporary pond if you needed to. Take a look in the pond section to see if there'd be anything special you'd need to do to hold the sides together, but I'm thinking you could set up some cinder blocks and toss in a pond liner with a net over the top - at least on a temporary basis. Based on where it was located, you'd have to figure out how to heat and filter it the best, cheapest way possible until your tank was fixed.

 

[Lgsasquatch]

I've used rubbermaid totes in the past while moving fish tanks. Hob filters fit on the sides for filtering. But I have a rubbermaid 100 gallon pond I use for my larger fish.

 

[pharmaecopia]

You could made a temporary pond if you needed to. Take a look in the pond section to see if there'd be anything special you'd need to do to hold the sides together, but I'm thinking you could set up some cinder blocks and toss in a pond liner with a net over the top - at least on a temporary basis. Based on where it was located, you'd have to figure out how to heat and filter it the best, cheapest way possible until your tank was fixed.

I have liner and sides for a 300 gallon ish pond, but I don't have anywhere to set that up right now or I would have assembled this back up.


At the moment I'm just using a larger rubbermaid tote that I use when transporting very large fish. Trouble is that it isn't insulated well and costs more to heat. So I would still like to find something better.

 

[Zari]

I have liner and sides for a 300 gallon ish pond, but I don't have anywhere to set that up right now or I would have assembled this back up.


At the moment I'm just using a larger rubbermaid tote that I use when transporting very large fish. Trouble is that it isn't insulated well and costs more to heat. So I would still like to find something better.

grab some cheap styrofoam and tape it around the sides and bottom if possible.