My bow front tank started leaking! What to do now?

[berkdog]

leebca,

Last night, my roommate called to let me know that the fish tank started leaking. By the time I got home, there were buckets and towels all around the fish tank. Long story short, the following items are now in a 20 gallon tank, a 20 gallon bucket, and another 20 gallon bucket:

1x Powder Brown Tang (medium)
1x Blue Hippo Tang (medium)
2x Ocellaris Clownfish (mated pair: black and white female, orange and white male)
2x Pink Skunk Clownfish (mated pair)

1x Haddon's Carpet Anemone (green/brown)
2x Bulb Anemone (one rose, one green)
1x Blood Red Fire Shrimp
1x Banded Coral Shrimp
1x Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
1x Pistol Shrimp
Hundreds of snails (Cerith, Nassarius, Nerite)
Dozens of Hermit crabs (variety: mostly scarlet, including one thin striped hermit)
2x Emerald Crabs

100+ lb of live rock (all 1+ years)
100+ lb of "live sand" (all 2+ years)

Macro algae (a couple of variety)

I changed careers and don't have the income to purchase a new tank, so I'm looking to re-home my live stock immediately. How should I do this? (suggestions). I posted on craigslist, but how should I verify these people are into saltwater fish husbandry? Should I just bring them to a local fish store and hope they find new homes that way? I don't need to make money off these, if I know my pets will go to new, stable homes.

(I'm considering keeping a pair of clownfish in a smaller 20 gallon tank)

Please reply with suggestions! I'm a bit stressed and could use some advice. Thank you.

Edit: Livestock has not been introduced into my tank for over a year. My anemones have thrived and done so well. I'm very sad to see this catastrophe happen.

[Reefing Madness]

Double post. Stupid computer.

[Reefing Madness]

If you can't buy another tank, you'll have to repair this one. Get a few totes from Lowes, Walmart or such, they sell 35, 45g rolling storage totes. Put your things in there. Break the tank down. Stip the silicone off, you'll need help here. Your choices are, find the side thats leaking and re-silicone that side only, or tear down the entire tank and silicone the whole thing. You'll need bar clamps to hold tank tightely together once you get the silicone in place. 72 hour wait period to cure, and put everthing back in place.
I have actually put my fish in the bath tub doing this before. Poweheads need to be put into all the totes to keep water moving. Don't worry about the skimmer in any of them, you won't have them in those totes long enough for anything to happen. Lights out for the corals will piss em off, but only for a few days.

[berkdog]

Sigh. I just took live rock, some invertebrates, and 4 of the fish to a local pet store. I'm keeping the 2 ocellaris in my 20 gallon for now. Maybe for the long run. I'm not keeping the broken tank =(

[leebca]

I wouldn't trust a tank that is brocken unless you are sure of the quality of the repair. I don't repair any of my tanks that leak or in any way don't perform. I figure the contents is just to valuable to risk. If, however, you are good at repairs and you know what you're doing, then go for it.