Reef Tank Disaster- Need Help

Hi everyone,

So I came home Christmas Day to my 250g reef tank shattered, everything everywhere, everything dead. Really brutal.

I'm trying to figure out what happened, the guy who built the tank is blaming the guy who built the stand and vise versa.

Pictures are below. Any thoughts or ideas on how to figure out what happened? Tank is about 6 months old. 1 inch acrylic.

thank so much!
Nick

The foam will do for any imperfections on the stand, especially if the stand is home made one. On the contrary if was factory stand you dont have to worry.
 
Great post by mickey204 above. I would ask those same questions.

Last resort:
If you determine that its the tank's construction, you could always pull a "Trump" and threaten him with legal action... not only for the cost of the tank, but its contents and any subsequent damage and clean-up costs to the house.

My lawyer will write up just about any letter for $100...they usually don't care if you have a case or not. That only matters if it goes to court (which you would have no intention of doing)

This is a last resort of course, and if he calls your bluff, you are out the $100...but you would be surprised about the attitude change that can take place when someone is threatened with a lawyer's letter to sue. Have the lawyer put in something about working out a compromise with you personally, with a deadline, to avoid any further action.

I would be mad as h3ll if this had happened to me through no fault of my own. I appreciate your frustration.
 
Sorry about your tank Nortner. Thanks Mickey for taking the time to document the process. Very interesting and informative.
 
What a Christmas present.
I think mickey204 seem to know best. Follow his reason suplement with your own research and try to get some recourse.
IME, the stand level or not is not all that important. It is weather or not it is in a flat plane and weather or not it have enough support, though out the bottom and side for acrylic.
1 inch acrylic 250 gal tank is way overkill and should not fail.
It is a bad tank.
 
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