So, as the title says i have a bit of an emergency on my hand. One that I did not expect...
I have a 1500 liter plywood tank that is sealed with pondarmour epoxy. It has been up and running for almost 1,5 years now.
Today i noticed something in one of the upper corners. Something that looked like wood!!! My cleaner shrimp was located in this area. As you can see from the attached picture something has eaten its way through the epoxy and quite a few layers of the plywood. Difficult to measure, but i would say at least 5mm. So my Sunday evening got quite alot busyer than expected. I needed to drain about 15cm of water from the display so that the area would be exposed and leave room for repair. Luckily this is quite high in the tank.
I need some help from the experts. Since i have no circulation through my sump i need to fix this quite fast. I have measured the level of moisture on the outside and it looks like it has spread about 3 times the size of the area. So this has happened quite fast.
What i was planning to do is to let it dry for a few days. Fill it with epoxy filler and then cover this in pondarmour (if i still have something left) I am guessing this will take 5-7 days.
Hoping that the display will last this long. Since i dont have the sump connected i have to manually add RO-DI water and manage whatever that would happen.
This is probably not something that has happened to allot of people, but do anyone have any tips for this? On how to repair this?
And last, can it be the cleaner shrimp that has done this? Or de we have another possible candidate? I cant see any of the fish do this. Other than this i have a banded coral shrimp (but i have never seen this that high) 2 sea urchins, but they are mostly in the rocks and some snails...
I have a 1500 liter plywood tank that is sealed with pondarmour epoxy. It has been up and running for almost 1,5 years now.
Today i noticed something in one of the upper corners. Something that looked like wood!!! My cleaner shrimp was located in this area. As you can see from the attached picture something has eaten its way through the epoxy and quite a few layers of the plywood. Difficult to measure, but i would say at least 5mm. So my Sunday evening got quite alot busyer than expected. I needed to drain about 15cm of water from the display so that the area would be exposed and leave room for repair. Luckily this is quite high in the tank.
I need some help from the experts. Since i have no circulation through my sump i need to fix this quite fast. I have measured the level of moisture on the outside and it looks like it has spread about 3 times the size of the area. So this has happened quite fast.
What i was planning to do is to let it dry for a few days. Fill it with epoxy filler and then cover this in pondarmour (if i still have something left) I am guessing this will take 5-7 days.
Hoping that the display will last this long. Since i dont have the sump connected i have to manually add RO-DI water and manage whatever that would happen.
This is probably not something that has happened to allot of people, but do anyone have any tips for this? On how to repair this?
And last, can it be the cleaner shrimp that has done this? Or de we have another possible candidate? I cant see any of the fish do this. Other than this i have a banded coral shrimp (but i have never seen this that high) 2 sea urchins, but they are mostly in the rocks and some snails...