Has falling rock ever cracked a tank?

[Ocicat]

When arranging LR, I've always been paranoid about making sure it's totally stable. Obviously this is important for the safety of the inhabitants, but my biggest fear was always that a toppled piece of rock, if heavy enough, might crack the glass - either the bottom or one of the sides.

But - I have never heard of that actually happening. Does this happen? Has anybody heard of this happening, or experienced it themselves?

 

[Whisperer]

Never heard of one instance. The buoyant force of saltwater softens the impact.

 

[sanababit]

i have never heard of a rock breaking an aquarium either

sana

 

[BigJay]

I've heard of it happening, a guy in our local club lost his 125 to a rockslide. He woke up to his entire tank on his livingroom floor. There are things you can do to help prevent a disaster.

Use an aquarium safe putty to make the base rocks stick together better. If the base is solid, there's much less chance of it all coming apart.

Use the bigger/heavier rocks on the bottom.

Stack the rock on some eggcrate or the bottom glass pane of the tank, not on the sand. If you build your aquascape on sand, all it takes is one engineer goby to bring it all down.

 

[noahm]

I am sure it has happened a few times, but on 10/20g tanks that are very thin glass, or when someone is scaping a dry tank. Otherwise it would take a very unlucky hit to do it. There is no way it is going to happen on a tempered bottom tank though. I've taken a hammer to that stuff.

 

[fufu]

Some Aquarium tank bottom are made of tempered glass so make it even harder to crack. If you going for bare bottom I get some rods for support to be sure, it not, a layer of sand will be the safety net.

 

[kumb knots]

I was doing rock scape and it fell against the glass did not brake but i do have a nice scratch on the front glass?

 

[Imzadi]

I could see it blowing out a side panel before a bottom. A corner of a rock, at just the right spot could pop a side out in an instant... especially under pressure of water load.

 

[Aqua Keepers]

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