Tank Disaster Videos and Repairs...

[Boonjob]

YEEEEEEPPPPPPP!  It's actually extremely hard to find good quality videos where the person isn't swearing like a sailor... as most are pretty angry during the filming. But here's what I've foun thus far... I have a few other good ones but the language isn't PG.

***I tried my best to monitor these as best as I could, but if a video has some foul language for someone please excuse and just make a comment to have it removed***

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[HUNGER]

some of those would suck

[bkvreef]

Two thoughts:
1. Oh my gosh, my biggest fear!!!!!
2. Instead of videotaping I'd be cleaning it out.  Like a crazy man!!!

[Neogenesis]

I found a leak on my overflow box two night ago.....for no reason the bulkhead starting leaking.  I took it apart, can't find a single issue, put it back together, still leaks like heck.  I'm awaiting a new set of bulkheads to be delivered.  I don't really want to know how bad the carpet got it, but since it was slow, it seems like it just left a mass of salt everywhere.

[Boonjob]

Bummer Neo,... LOL I was thinking the same thing BKreef... I have alot more, but the language isn't site friendly... In one of them the guys wakes up to his 8ft tank that is just spewing water all over the floor, the whole seam gave way and the glass is actually being pushed out there was already like 3" of standing water on his floor and the tank wasn't even half empty... The whole time the guys just keeps repeating to him self that he doesn't know what to do or what to do with his fish... The whole time I was thinking " put down the camera and siphon the rest of the water into a rubbermaid tote to atleast keep your fish alive)... nope this dude just stood there and taped it come all apart. He was cussing like crazy otherwise I would put it up here cause it's a great leak.

[Neogenesis]

I'm going to have nightmares now tonight.  I don't think I could ever come back to the hobby if I dropped 300 gallons on to the floor.  The only good part I have going for me the famliy room is sunken.........I could just toss the fish on the floor and let them swim around........

[Boonjob]

Though it appears some of these people deserved what they got... the guys who showed his cracked tank and then the new one sitting on the kitchen counter... if you look at the old tank he cut the center brace out....

The guy with the 300 gal tank whose center brace failed and cracked the tank.. he even says he noticed the center brace was deteriorating , but yet he did nothing about it until it broke.

[slandis3]

I'm going to have nightmares now tonight.  I don't think I could ever come back to the hobby if I dropped 300 gallons on to the floor.  The only good part I have going for me the famliy room is sunken.........I could just toss the fish on the floor and let them swim around........

I always wanted to sink a Rubbermaid tub in the floor and cover it with real thick Plexiglas for a true look down tank.

[Boonjob]

That would be a pain to clean and maintain.

[slandis3]

Na, just put a retractable top on it. lol

[Boonjob]

Makes sense... Might aswell make a little remote submarine to play around with and clean the glass while your at it.

[HUNGER]

i bounced in a club in caralina the the dance floor was 5 inch glass over a huge tank  it was cool

[DarinSchmidt]

With the first one, is it really all that smart to use silicon to do the repairs? I wouldnt trust the "strength" of silicon to hold that glass together. I would use some type of epoxy or something. Something like this

[slandis3]

With the first one, is it really all that smart to use silicon to do the repairs? I wouldnt trust the "strength" of silicon to hold that glass together. I would use some type of epoxy or something. Something like this

If silicon is strong enough to hold the aquarium together at the seams its plenty strong enough to hold the repair.

[HUNGER]

heck the frames on a tank is just for looks

[DarinSchmidt]

something about silicon, which is pretty flexible, as the main adhesive, still scares me. I wouldnt dare take off the frame of a tank in hopes that the sides stay together. Just me though.

[Neogenesis]

heck the frames on a tank is just for looks

That isn't so true.  The outside frames yes, they don't really need to be there.  However those braces that run across our tanks, they are a must have.  After owning a older 125g tank that was designed without a brace, seeing it bowed when full was enough to make me sell it and go buy a different tank.  I'll never take that chance again, unless it was a eurobraced tank.

[slandis3]

something about silicon, which is pretty flexible, as the main adhesive, still scares me. I wouldnt dare take off the frame of a tank in hopes that the sides stay together. Just me though.

My glasscages tank didn't have a frame around it and it still holds water, (6 years old). Silicon to glass bond is much higher than you think. Think about the rimless glass tanks, they have no frame and last for years.