Re: "snap" in the middle of the night

[Tricia M <tishykb at yahoo_com>]

If it was just a corner seam, and not a crack in the
glass, taking the entire tank down and resiliconing
everything is your best, and safest, bet. You may even
want to cut out the silicon between the panes of glass
(that is actually holding the tank together) and
resilicon them too, as the chance of the seam busting
again without doing so isn't a chance i'd like to
take.

--Tricia 

--- "Kray, Edd" <Edd_Kray at rf.doe.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
> What sound do we aquarists fear the most? Perhaps
> the sound that
> awakened me at 1:22 this morning when the 125 gallon
> display tank I'd
> set up in the bedroom split a seam and started
> pouring water onto the
> bedroom floor 8 feet from my, at that time, sound
> asleep noggin. You may
> not want to even imagine the picture of my dear wife
> and I scrambling
> around in our birthday suits trying to stem the flow
> out of the tank,
> and then the next hour of cleaning the water from
> the bedroom floor. Ah,
> the joys of the aquarium hobby!
> 
> This had been the nicest display tank I'd ever set
> up, filled with
> bachelor killies (lots of Epiplatys), various
> African tetras, Ctenopoma,
> Distochodus, Pelvicachromis etc. The plants were
> doing beautifully
> thanks to my sugar/yeast home-made injection system.
> 
> Now, thanks to a carpenters clamp, there is still
> about 6 inches of
> water in the tank keeping the fish alive until I get
> home from work and
> find them a new home.
> 
> Anyway, on to the question for you tank experts: Is
> there any practical
> way of fixing the tank? It seems to me I would have
> to take the whole
> thing apart and re-do every single seam with new
> silicone sealant. I
> base this assumption on a belief that the silicone
> has reached an age
> where it's all going bad and I can't trust a single
> seam on the tank
> anymore.  (Yes, it is an OLD tank, probably 20 years
> or more, given to
> me by a friend just last year).
> 
> Advice? 
> 
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