I'm Travis. I found out about PVAS while picking up some albino bristlenoses locally. I've been keeping fish for more than 30 years since I was a kid.
I got a bit more active with my fish this year and started restocking my 55 then decided a 125 would be nice.
After a few months delay I got my 'new' 125 set up. I found it locally for including the stands, hood, lights and three canister filters. I first got it mostly filled in June and got a couple filters running. Everything seemed ok. Since I was sleeping on my couch that night I shut off the filters after running them for several hours without issue. Well woke up the next morning to squishy carpet and what looked like about 20 less gallons in the tank. I didn't have time to mess with it, had to get to work. So I put down some towels and disconnected the hoses from the canisters which includes closing some ball valves, well they're supposed to right?
Got home from work to find about 20 gallons remaining in the tank. Water had soaked through the floor, then the garage ceiling down to the garage floor and out the front. Apparently the ball valves don't seal tightly so the hoses actually siphoned out all that water. I finished draining it and moving the tank and everything on that side of the room so I could peel back the carpet and tear out the pad so I could get everything dried. Thankfully we had several days of dry air and it dried quickly. I decided now was a good time to just remove all the carpet and install something else. I finally found some luxury vinyl tiles at a good price and got enough of that installed to get the tank established again. I added a couple fish from my 55 to make sure all was well eventually added the rest. No issues now. I'm not using the canisters, I got a pair of Whispers like I've used on the other tanks.
I've got small schools of neons, cardinals, black neons, green fire tetras, ember tetras, emperor tetras; four peacock gudgeons, some CPDs, 8 cory cats of four species, a farlowella cat and some neocaridina shrimp that are rarely seen.
My 55 currently has four adult guppies and probably a dozen small ones now; the three albino bristlenoses until they get a bit bigger and about 100 baby bronze corys.
beautiful tank loo\ve what your doing