Godman100
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Hello all,
Yesterday morning, I woke up to seeing one third of my fish tank empty in my 140 gallon tank. The leak was on the bottom of the tank on the far left cornor.
I resealed this tank 6 months. When I first bought the tank, it was used and it needed a reseal since it had a leak on the bottom middle of the tank. I scraped off the old slicone and applied new slicone on when the glass was completely cleaned. I then let it dry for a month because I had to rip up my old carpit in my bedroom and apply new wood laminate down. After 2 months later, the flooring was done and the tank was ready to be moved.
When we first moved the giant 200 pound tank in my room, we used plastic sliders under my tank stand's 4 legs. I ended up going to work that same night, so I didn't get the chance to fill it. However, while I was working, my brother and girlfriend decided to suprised me by filling up the tank to start the cycle process. The problem was is that they forgot to take the 4 plastic sliders from underneath the fish tank stand's legs.
I looked at it sliders and noticed that they weight of the stand, tank, and water crushed the plastic. There was no way I could lift up the weight now. So I said screw it and noglected it. Nevertheless, when the tank was filled, I could see that more water went to the left side of the tank just by a little. I didn't think anything of it at the time.
The tank was cycled, ran for for 4 months with no issues. The tank housed 1 Phantom Pleco with 6 very young and small Clown Loaches. All survived the event.
After doing research, I learned that if the tank is on an uneven stand or ground, it could get pressure points and break the slicone sealant. The tank could have also cracked right open. I am so thankful that didn't happen though because my fish would have definitely died.
With that said, was it defintely the unevenness with due to the plastic sliders being under each leg of the stand that caused the leak or was it a bad sealment job? I didn't think the sealant was poorly applied at all.
Please let me know. The fish are fine. They are in a 10 gallon cycled tank. They need to get out quickly though because that is not a home they deserve.
It really crushed me yesterday with fish keeping. I really thought about saying screw it... but nothing was damaged and I don't like to quit. Especially with my fish pets on the table! It was just a lot of cleaning up and a lot of stress that morning I had to deal with.
Please help!
Yesterday morning, I woke up to seeing one third of my fish tank empty in my 140 gallon tank. The leak was on the bottom of the tank on the far left cornor.
I resealed this tank 6 months. When I first bought the tank, it was used and it needed a reseal since it had a leak on the bottom middle of the tank. I scraped off the old slicone and applied new slicone on when the glass was completely cleaned. I then let it dry for a month because I had to rip up my old carpit in my bedroom and apply new wood laminate down. After 2 months later, the flooring was done and the tank was ready to be moved.
When we first moved the giant 200 pound tank in my room, we used plastic sliders under my tank stand's 4 legs. I ended up going to work that same night, so I didn't get the chance to fill it. However, while I was working, my brother and girlfriend decided to suprised me by filling up the tank to start the cycle process. The problem was is that they forgot to take the 4 plastic sliders from underneath the fish tank stand's legs.
I looked at it sliders and noticed that they weight of the stand, tank, and water crushed the plastic. There was no way I could lift up the weight now. So I said screw it and noglected it. Nevertheless, when the tank was filled, I could see that more water went to the left side of the tank just by a little. I didn't think anything of it at the time.
The tank was cycled, ran for for 4 months with no issues. The tank housed 1 Phantom Pleco with 6 very young and small Clown Loaches. All survived the event.
After doing research, I learned that if the tank is on an uneven stand or ground, it could get pressure points and break the slicone sealant. The tank could have also cracked right open. I am so thankful that didn't happen though because my fish would have definitely died.
With that said, was it defintely the unevenness with due to the plastic sliders being under each leg of the stand that caused the leak or was it a bad sealment job? I didn't think the sealant was poorly applied at all.
Please let me know. The fish are fine. They are in a 10 gallon cycled tank. They need to get out quickly though because that is not a home they deserve.
It really crushed me yesterday with fish keeping. I really thought about saying screw it... but nothing was damaged and I don't like to quit. Especially with my fish pets on the table! It was just a lot of cleaning up and a lot of stress that morning I had to deal with.
Please help!