Insult to injury! Tank cracked!

[joshbrookkate]

No now that you changed your avatar to a good looking girl someone will probably offer to fix your cracked panel for free!

You have no idea how many times I've thought about changing my avatar...

Lol

 

[Lizy]

No now that you changed your avatar to a good looking girl someone will probably offer to fix your cracked panel for free!

You have no idea how many times I've thought about changing my avatar...

:lmao::lmao::lmao:

Wanted to make sure everybody knew j/k

 

[getindavan]

While waiting for your new tank, you can do things like set up an RO at your house and cure your live rock in a tank or bucket.

 

[Lizy]

While waiting for your new tank, you can do things like set up an RO at your house and cure your live rock in a tank or bucket.

I am definitely gonna cure the rock. Another member on other thread mentioned brute tub and then I realized I have an empty 55 gallon tank that I am trying to sell, might as well use that in the meantime. I am actually going to get me some salt and the power head and get started with that.

Thanks.

 

[Pivitol]

Buy a Brute and set up the 55.

 

[uncleof6]

Upps, billdogg beat me to the punch on the first line here....

I would feel bad if I sold someone a tank, and it cracked. My fault, their fault I would feel bad enough to give them the money back. (for a used tank anyway--not one I spent time building from scratch, unless I actually broke it.) But that is just me.

On the bright side, if it did break in transport, you learned a valuable lesson in how not to transport a glass box. This will come in handy when/if you remain in the hobby, and move up to bigger (read $$) glass boxes.

 

[uncleof6]

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[uncleof6]

IF you decide to repair it, please set it up outside, and keep a webcam on it 24/7 so that when (not if) it fails, we can watch!

The ONLY way to repair that would be to replace the entire panel. To do that, you must disassemble the entire tank (all 5 panels), clean them of all traces of old silicone, and then put it all back together.

Naw, would only have to r & r the broken panel. Line of thought: if it ain't broke don't fix it. Only reason to rebuild the entire tank would be if it was leaking, before the damage, or after the repair and leaking in a different area. Reseal the inside? Yep.

 

[uncleof6]

Ok so I'm a newbie here; gather all my info to start my new tank which I purchased on offer up, Yes a used 65 gallon tank. When I picked it up it was night and I honestly didn't see this crack, I think it may have happened on the way home in the bed of the pick up maybe the hand truck bumped it I don't know! I'm just starting, on a serious budget and now possibly out what I paid is really painful and stressful. After much Google search I think it can be repaired with a glass patch. Here are pictures of the crack taken from the back, side and front. The crack is on the back, so the repairs wouldn't be seen since it would be facing the wall and have rock in front.

I'm thinking a 1/4" glass (same as tank) 6" wide by 27" long on the inside (water pressure World be from the inside out)..... Ge sc5000 silicone from what i googled...... Thoughts please

This picture is the back, not Sure why but the photo uploaded upside down

Just a side note, are you sure you have the silicone number right? The closest I can get to silicone with sc5000 is some sort of varnish coating silicone... and don't think that GE makes it. The only direct hit I get is this post. GE (now Momentive) specialty silicones would be prefixed with SCS, but there is no SCS5000 that I can find... might be old, and not in production, but still never heard of it.

Just for something to tuck away in your notebook for when/if you get the bug to build something with glass and silicone for this hobby: SCS1200 or RTV108 (both GE/Momentive.) You won't have to google very long to find thousands of words written on these products; I probably wrote most of them LOL... it isn't a preference thing really, it is what pros use.