I could really do with some advice please. We have tropical freshwater fish, or rather DH has but he's out of the country in the wrong time zone and I'm now in the shit alone
My knowledge of fish keeping is confined to feeding and cleaning the tank I'm afraid.
Noticed a pool of water dripping onto the floor from the underside front of tank. The stand is made of chipboard I think, it's this one and the board has swollen and splitting. I've mopped it up and it seems to be a slow leak (I really, really hope), load of towels at the base. Tried to use something to direct flow into a bucket.
Tank is aqua one 300L tank with gravel filter. It's 8 years old. I've counted the fish and we have about 45 inches of fish of various sizes, some older than this tank (neons, glass catfish, clown loach, pleqs and others I don't know the name of).
So, tomorrow I need to go and buy an emergency tank. How small a tank can I get away with? We'll get another similar sized one once DH is home but I just need to keep the fish alive and my kitchen dry for a couple of weeks. I know ideally they would need a 200l tank, but would they be ok in say a 100L tank for a couple of weeks? We'd been talking about getting a temporary tank anyway because the section of floor under the tank needs retiling so wouldn't be totally wasteful.
How quickly can I get it up and running? What will I need to buy - do I need a new heater and filter (ours is external). Guessing I'd need to use water from the old tank.
Why did this happen now?!!!!
Any help gratefully received.