Pushed. :lol: Hey, you never know. There was some light bickering between the three of them from time to time.
On a sad note, the tank is coming down. Last night I found a hairline crack in one of the eurobraces. Here's my thread on my local club forum:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1925219
Basically what happened is this. Back during the construction phase, I planned for the water level to be about half an inch below the bottom of the eurobrace. So, when I was doing epoxy, I poured the bottom of the eurobrace about 1/8" thick - a little thinner than the walls/floor, but still PLENTY thick enough. On the face and top of the brace, I just brushed 4 or 5 coats of epoxy on, which in theory should be plenty, but brushing is definitely not as "reliable" as pouring. At that stage, I figured I was just protecting those sections from splashes, and didn't need a super-thick coat.
Well, when I set the tank up, I STUPIDLY decided to glue the overflow in such that the water level was about an inch higher than planned - i.e. half an inch up from the bottom of the brace. I posted that photo a few pages back showing the bottom of the brace under water. There were no obvious problems with this, but it was a deviation from plan.
Anyways, here we are, a month later, and now one of the eurobraces is cracking - the plywood is delaminating behind the epoxy, because it's wet. It turns out there was a tiiiiiiiiiny pinhole in the epoxy I brushed on, where there was a little void in the core of the wood. That pinhole has slowly let water soak in to the brace, which has now caused it to delaminate.
The tank is full as of this very moment in time, but drained down an inch, such that the damaged section is no longer under water. It's a very very subtle crack, but I have zero faith in the tank and will be draining it completely within the next few days. The big issue is that I don't have any foolproof way of knowing the extent of the damage at this point. If the wood was wet enough to split, I don't know where else the water has gotten to through that hole/crack - if the water seeped along a screw hole into the side panel of the tank, or weakened the bond between the eurobrace and the side wall, disaster would not be far behind. And I can't risk that.
The only thought I have for potential repair would be to completely cut out that brace, replace it, and re-coat that whole area with epoxy, but that would mean complete dismantling of the tank, which would be no small task (it's behind drywall). And, I would still not have a totally foolproof way of knowing if the water had caused other structural damage. So, I'm considering other options besides repair at this point - i.e. using the tank for something dry. In the meantime, with some local help, I'm setting up a temporary home for the livestock.
This all sucks but in the grand scheme it's just a fish tank and not the end of the world.