Brand with highest tank failure rate?

[Reef Frog]

It blows my mind to think it could ever be financially & logistically logical to build a fragile glass box so far away from where it will be sold and used. I always assumed the mass market tanks were built in automated factories where the cheap overseas labor wouldn't make up for the presumably huge shipping costs and inventory losses due to shipping, not to mention the costs of fulfilling warranty obligations on poorly made product.

 

[Shawn O]

Thin glass saves on sand (raw materials), fuel to melt the sand into glass and shipping costs to get them to the distributors. Makes sense, from a business standpoint, to make them as thin and light as possible as long as you have enough structural integrity. Sometimes companies push it too far and failure rates rise, but so does their bottom line, in the short term. Companies that over-do structural strength to lower failure rates, needlessly spending gross profits, reduce their bottom line. The fine line between is what makes or breaks a company's reputation, if not the company itself.

 

[viking48]

Well I just had my 2 year old marinelands 265 spill 265 gallons of water on my floor, and I'm thinking of not replacing it with another marinelands.

 

[toothybugs]

Okay now that sucks.

 

[WaReefer458]

I've heard the marine land DD tank have a relatively high failure rate as well as any cadlights tank over 70 gallons.

 

[biecacka]

Like Simon says (remember that game?!) "one must also consider the number of tanks being built." Marineland and glasscages are both commonly known to bust seems and such. But they also build way more tanks then their competitions so in return they also have a high % of tanks still in operation. I'm not saying go with them or don't, im just saying that needs to be taken into consideration as well. I had my tank custom built....


Corey

 

[rjjr1963]

I wonder how many of these failures are related to improperly built stands or poor structures supporting them.

 

[RayAllen3422]

I wonder how many of these failures are related to improperly built stands or poor structures supporting them.

I was thinking the exact same thing.

 

[viking48]

My 265 Marinelands came with a Marinelands stand and canopy, when I contacted marinelands they didn't sound too surprised it leaked , and when I talked to the LFS mine was the second one that week. Marinelands said they would replace it ,but do I want one that might leak again. I lost all my big corals and all my fish are fighting in my 29 biocube, big change in surroundings.

 

[dfgjdgyuj]

I know Marineland moved their manufacturing to china. I cant speak on their current tanks but I have an older Marineland 120 that's solid.

 

[Ocean envy]

Viking , sorry to hear about your tank failure. I would have a tough time trusting the same tank again. I guess you could get it and either add more silicon to the seams and shore up the brace some how, or just sell it new on craigslist to get some of your $ out.