When it rains it freakin pours

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markviiisvt4

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So I went over to Jeffs to drop off my Duncans and grab a few frags. I got home walked in the door, plunked the bags in my display tank, and walked to the kitchen to hang up my keys. Then I hear BANG!!!!. I run back to the living room expecting to see 150 gallons of water on the floor, but instead find this..............


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LOL I duno what happend. only thing i can figure is the lights got it hot or somthing. It is an Oceanic with that big stupid center brace.
 
How would you fix that?
I have been thinking about cutting the brace out of my AGA and putting a glass one in, but Im not sure if I silicone it it will be as strong...
 
This one was just siliconed in. I can already see my tankfront bowing. I duno what the hell i'm gonna do. can't upgrade till tuesday when that caddys gone.
 
Build a 2x4 brace for now to hold it together or home depot has metal that can be formed to hold the tank together from bowing
 
How wide is your tank?

I've got some long cabinet type clamps you can put across the tank for safe measure until then.
 
For a temp fix grab a bar clamp and a couple pieces of 1x4 or other wood to fit between the glass and the clamp. Just put enough pressure on it to take the stress out and ensure that it doesn't blow out while you decide the next step.

I think you could cut it out and clean the silicone out and then get a piece of glass cut to size to silicone back into place. You might have to drain a few inches of water out to keep the repaired area from getting splashed.

Here's the type of clamp I am thinking of.
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http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_137310_137310

Hope that helps.
 
The tank is 26 inches front to back A cabinent clamp would prolly work. I've got a motercycle ratchet strap on it right now but it'a already creaking.
 
Any chance you can lower the water level in your tank? You would be taking a lot of stress off the tank by simply lowering to say 3/4 of what it is at now. Of course, you wouldn't be able to run the water through your sump. But, if you can move to another tank within the next week, you'd probably be fine. I would not trust that tank the way it is now.
 
Wow Tj, sorry to hear you are having all this trouble. And its your BD this Saturday too. Boy did I pick a bad time to come up.
 
I have no accomidations upstairs for any equipment. I'm gonna try a quick clamp for right now and hopefully i can find a piece of glass that will hold it. I got some qtr layin around you guys think that will work.

vietcu don't worry about it. I'd rather this chalace be saved any way lol
 
I think 1/4" glass would be fine and you might be able to get away with cleaning up the broken pieces and then silicone the new piece over the broken brace. Sort of laminating the 2 glass braces together. You could smear the silicone over a larger area this way and not have to scrape and clean the old stuff out. All that would be required is to clamp it back into place, squirt your silicone on the old broken brace, set the new brace over the silicone and clamp together lightly.

It seems like an easy solution to a bad situation.

Good luck!
 
Man, sorry to hear that.

Shot you a PM... I would also lower that water level to relieve the stress until you get it fixed... The last think you want is to split a seam.
 
i would glue in a strip of acylic this time, the glass broke for a reason, another piece of glass on it would probably end up the same, broke.
 
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