zeromus-x
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I'm going to be recarpeting the living room, which is where the fish tank is (36g bowfront). The stand has wheels but obviously it's not really moveable. I don't have any weird things going on (fuge, sump, etc)... just the tank with the filter hanging off the back.
When I moved it about two weeks ago, I drained it a little more than 50% (hey, time for a good water change, right?). Lifted it and moved it with a friend or two, since the wheels still wouldn't spin.
This of course freaked the hell out of the fish. I've never moved a fish tank! I ripped up the carpet where it was and moved it back to that spot for now, since I couldn't put it anywhere else. Filled it back up, periodically mixing salt in to raise the salinity (I didn't have a big bucket, so I basically poured a few gallons in, measured, salted, poured a few gallons in, etc). Used distilled water from the grocery store, BTW. The next day, my cleaner shrimp and a cardinal were dead. I can't find my peppermint shrimp but I assume he's hiding in the rocks, because he'll go weeks without ever coming out.
Is there something else I can do to prevent more accidental death? I've got two engineer gobies, a firefish, a yellowtail damsel, and a couple inverts (the theoretical peppermint shrimp, a sally lightfoot crab, black and green brittle stars, fighting conch, cc star, and numerous snails). They're all pretty hardy fish but I don't want to take any chances!!
(as an aside, even after the water change, my damned nitrates are still really high... can not get rid of them!!!! grr)
When I moved it about two weeks ago, I drained it a little more than 50% (hey, time for a good water change, right?). Lifted it and moved it with a friend or two, since the wheels still wouldn't spin.
This of course freaked the hell out of the fish. I've never moved a fish tank! I ripped up the carpet where it was and moved it back to that spot for now, since I couldn't put it anywhere else. Filled it back up, periodically mixing salt in to raise the salinity (I didn't have a big bucket, so I basically poured a few gallons in, measured, salted, poured a few gallons in, etc). Used distilled water from the grocery store, BTW. The next day, my cleaner shrimp and a cardinal were dead. I can't find my peppermint shrimp but I assume he's hiding in the rocks, because he'll go weeks without ever coming out.
Is there something else I can do to prevent more accidental death? I've got two engineer gobies, a firefish, a yellowtail damsel, and a couple inverts (the theoretical peppermint shrimp, a sally lightfoot crab, black and green brittle stars, fighting conch, cc star, and numerous snails). They're all pretty hardy fish but I don't want to take any chances!!
(as an aside, even after the water change, my damned nitrates are still really high... can not get rid of them!!!! grr)
