Does you tank make noises?

[canarsie11]

I just wondered if your tanks make noises?

I always hear horror stores of tanks crashing in the middle of the night, flooding living rooms and itis one of my biggest fears!

My tank has been running for 9 months, no cracks, water loss, leaking. But oncein while i hear noise like shifting or movement. Of course I run over to the tank and check it, and there is nothing wrong.

I figured it may be tank settling after water changes and such, but everytime I hear something I hold breath

75 gallon tank by the way.

Is this normal?

 

[Vip]

iys normal, my tanks make noise all the time, my 75g doesnt shut up the filters on are so noiy but then again my tanks are noisy because of the fish

 

[Fishy411]

yeah. When i walk by the tank wobbles because my floor isnt level and my stand is. I figure its nothing to worry about. The tank is 500 pounds probly more so it will take a lot more than a little wobbling to tip it over.



vip my fish make noises too. My stupid braindead cory always jumps up to get his little air bubble and when i raised the water level he started hitting th elights.

 

[SPLiSH]

I have an overfiltered 2 gallon and the noise is unbearable! It's on my bedside table too. I hear the Bio-balls rattling, the impeller pump whirring and the water trickling back into the tank.

Make it stop!

 

[KentBlokey]

The only noise mine makes is if the pump or heater cable touch the lid/flap/bit of plastic covering the Juwel filter. If it does it rattles...not very loud, Just annoying. So I have to wedge and re-position the cables whenever I have lifted the pump out.

 

[cmic34]

i've had 2 tanks leak, but never heard a noise from them before the leaks. 1 55 gal was leaking from the corner, cught it before anything bad could happen. i had to hurry and put the fish in random containers and drained the water with a siphon. other tank was 30 gal tall in my basement, went down one morning my carpet was soaked, all fish were dead, tank is still empty i have no idea where the leak was from. both tanks were over 10 yrs old though.

 

[Fish Buddy]

My 50 gallon does not make any noise at all, except when the water level drops and then I can hear water trickling from the filter. But maybe that's because the fish I have in there are small or slow movers: baby rainbows, rasboras, angelfish, swordtails; and also because I have no substrate for them to play in anyway.

Is your stand level and do you have a piece of styrofoam under the tank (between the tank in the stand)? Two both very important things for a large thank. You want even distribution of the weight so no cracks can from due to structure stress.

Do you have any rocks in your tank that are stacked on top of each other? -you don't want that falling...

 

[Stryker]

On the issue of floors "giving" causing wobble. So long as your stand stays square and does not warp, the tank will be fine.

 

[littlefishie]

All I hear throughout the night is my Aquaclear trickling into the tank. Though it's nice and soothing during the day, it makes me worry SO much at night! I'm sure everyone knows of the whole 'Hey, my friend is sleeping, let's put their hand in a bowl of water and make them pee themselves!' ..I get scared that hearing the water while I'm sleeping will put me in a similar position! I know how weird that sounds, but a friend of mine who had a fluval in her dorm tank with frogs was worried about the same thing, so I'm not insane.

 

[annka5]

I had a tank with goldfish in it which broke for no apparant reason - it just seemed to break. Fortunately was in the house at the time(in a different room), and heard it go, ut it did make a huge mess. Rescued the fish though.

However this was on really poor quality base without styrofoam under it, which I think was the problem. We'd also moved house with it about 4 times, which I don't think helped matters.

it didn't make any kind of noise or whatever before it went - just a very load crack followed by the sound of several gallons of water pouring onto living room floor when it broke.

This post might not reassure you so much, but if you're tank is on a decent base with a styrofoam pad underneath, then would imagine you'd not have this problem.