Dont balance rocks on driftwood!!!

[*KrAmEr*]

Well I thought id start soaking my driftwood but the thing is it's so big I had to soak it in my tank( my tank which I only just finished making). So I put it in the tank put a couple of large rocks on it to weight it down then started filling the tank I watched the wood closely making sure it didnt float. About 20 minutes later the tank is almost full and I take my eyes of this wood for just a few seconds and it fricken floats and a huge rock falls down cracking the base of my newly made 6x2x2. I run out and turn the tap of then run back inside throw a pump in the tank to get the water out asap luckily the tank was made out of laminated glass or else the whole house would be flooded(this happened just an hour ago at like 11pm everyones asleep).
Anyway my mum is going to laugh at me so much tomorrow because she hates my hobby, but im just going to patch it and it should be all good.

Heres some pictures...I threw in a picture of the driftwood too because it looks awesome

 

[Fish_are_fishfood]

Holly crap bro!! that looks like one heck of a dent, glad it didn't fall straight through. Thats one nice piece of wood though, got any plastic tubs you can fit it in and just soak it outside to sink?

 

[*KrAmEr*]

Holly crap bro!! that looks like one heck of a dent, glad it didn't fall straight through. Thats one nice piece of wood though, got any plastic tubs you can fit it in and just soak it outside to sink?

Yeah it was one of them really heavy river rocks.

Im soaking it in the bath for now..... but I wanted too soak another bit at the same time that's why I tryed to soak this one in the tank.

 

[cichlid savage]

Sorry for your mishap. But that piece of wood is awesome. Get a big rubber tub and soak it until it sinks or just let it float in your tank until it sinks naturally.

 

[*KrAmEr*]

Sorry for your mishap. But that piece of wood is awesome. Get a big rubber tub and soak it until it sinks or just let it float in your tank until it sinks naturally.

Nah it's cool I got the glass for free so Im more annoyed at my stupid mistake

 

[mike dunagan]

that is horrible... was the tank empty other than the wood and the rocks holding it down?

 

[*KrAmEr*]

that is horrible... was the tank empty other than the wood and the rocks holding it down?

No it was almost full when the wood floated and a rock fell off and hit the bottom but because it's laminated safety glass no water leaked at all

 

[daitenshi]

Damn....that's a pain. What will you do about the cracked glass?

 

[Bsixxx]

thats a bust

well glad to see you can repair it or what ever

 

[*KrAmEr*]

Damn....that's a pain. What will you do about the cracked glass?

Well im just going to patch half of the bttom off the tank to add some strength too it, it actually still holds water because it's laminated glass(two pieces of glass stuck togethor) and only one half of the glass broke and it was the bottom sheet that broke so you cant even feel the crack from inside the tank. That probably didnt make sense so heres a picture of laminated glass.