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[Reggae Fish]

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here is my 72 bow. I've noticed this a few times but figured with me pulling my hands out of the water had it dripping down and the salt would build up. So, earlier tonight, I cleaned it and made sure no water was near it. Now it is showing salt there. There doesn't appear to be any wet water from what I can tell. Does this mean there is a leak? What do I do? I just got the tank from beldt's about 10 days ago!

It appears to have just a bit of red in some of it? It sits on top of the bottom trim.

It does have a canopy and there is a bit of moisture on the inside of it and some salt but it seems kindof far fetched. I'm going to put a peice of paper under it to see if any is falling. Please let me know what you think!

Thanks,
Justin

 

[Sk8r]

Is there any source of micro spray just floating in the air from the outflow? That can accumulate salt.

 

[Reggae Fish]

I'm sorry, what do you mean by that? are you saying that if the return nozzles are sitting too close to the top or a bit out of the water, that it would create a mist and drop down the canopy?

I have some color paper hanging there now to catch anything from the canopy. I hope that's it.

If it's not, would the leak jepordize the stability of the tank? I have 2 small kids and don't want them around it if it's dangerous!

 

[Hobbes8017]

A leak can be bad enough to cause a tank failure, but I do not believe your situation is that. Just continue with your investigation. You are definitly on the right track with the paper. Will help determine where the salt is coming from.

 

[Reggae Fish]

Well I had the paper hanging last night and when I woke up the salt was there again on the bottom so it's not coming from the canopy...Does this mean there is a leak. There has to be some kind of water to continually make it salt up above the trim...

Should I call beldts? I'm guessing the AGA have warranties.

Is there any way to positively conclude that it is a leak?

 

[ksstgall]

Not sure on this this so see what others think. If you have been messing with it and got water down there, then it will take it a lot longer to evaporate from between the trim and the glass. So as it is still slowly evaporating from in there the salt is creeping out of the crack?

 

[Reggae Fish]

How much water could have been down there? I had been messing around with it on Saturday but not sunday at all. Would it still take this long?

 

[blakevogt]

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I have had similar experience over the past year with no further problems.

Per one of your first posts... I thought it was just from me cleaning the tank.

Everytime I wipe it clean... it appears again.

Condensation???

In any instance, no major problems since I noticed the salt buildup... just an annoyance.

Blake

 

[SSTG]

I also had a similar problem like that with my sump.Took weeks for salt creep to stop.If your not seeing noticeable drop in water level i'd say your ok.