Wave Box cause this nightmare?

[canar]

Wow I have had a wonderful morning.

Was coming down the stairs headed to work and I looked at my 210 and it was only half full!

The 210 is an All-Glass. It is only a few months old.

After a furious morning and Rod being the cool guy he is and doing an emergency visit we have everything in rubermaids with powerheads.

My carpet is soaked, my storage room is soaked, it is not a pretty sight.

The leak was on the side at the bottom. Almost directly below my new wavebox. I heard these can stress a tank a bit more then normal. Do they do that much damage they can pop a seam in a couple months? I loved the wave box but now I am going to be scared to put it back in.

Ted

 

[rvitko]

I don't think this is possible solely because of the wavebox. My guess would be it had a bad seam and the wavebox just made the innevitable occur sooner. The other contributor would be if it was unlevel, especialy if it was torqued.

 

[plancton]

thats why I love acrylic

 

[rvitko]

Unfortunately acrylic breaks too. I would not rate acrylic as superior to glass in any way except being lighter and easier to work with on big aquariums. I have seen big acrylic tanks fail, even though in theory the weld should be as strong as the material itself, that doesn't always happen in the real world.

 

[GSMguy]

acrylic becomes brittle from light and time and glass is a liquid maybee we something new to make tanks from

 

[hahnmeister]

glass gets brittle over time as well, and so does silicone.

Hey, right now clear aluminum is in testing for use on military vehicles. Its about 5x the cost of bulletproof glass, which if you think back to when plexiglass domes for F-16s were first being made, they were even more expensive. Its only a matter of time, but I get we will have the ability to 'weld' together a clear aluminum tank. Maybe even silicone would work... its considered a ceramic.