HELP! My !80 has sprung a leak

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cornbread_5

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Ok so i come home and my 180 has started leaking and its coming from the bottom of the tank from one of the two braces. I am assuming that is leaking from somewhere else and is accumulating at the brace I emptied the tank and re-homed the fish. I need help finding the leak , what can i do to pin-point the leak
 
Move the tank somewhere completely dry and safe. Just in case it Bursts. Slowly fill checking all seams over and over again. As long as u start out with everything dry u will find it.

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Are you sure it was leaking and water wasn't just splashing out and running down the side? Sounds like a dumb idea but it happened to me and it saved me from having to tear down my big tank and resealing it again.
 
Anthony Nolet said:
Are you sure it was leaking and water wasn't just splashing out and running down the side? Sounds like a dumb idea but it happened to me and it saved me from having to tear down my big tank and resealing it again.
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yeah double check that. I have a tank that leaks somewhere in the upper molding. It only leaks when I fill it up to the top. Even the splash from my sponge filter in one particular corner will make it leak. With the tank full, and without cutting yourself, run a dry finger down the edges of your tank. If you're still dry and it's still leaking, it must be leaking from the bottom somewhere.
 
...and if the tank is leaking it doesn't much matter where the leak is as the tank will have to be drained and ALL of the inner silicone will have to be removed before the tank can be resealed.
 
I recently had this really weird "leaking" issue with my 180. There was a super slow water droplet that would form at one particular point in my upper frame. Check the glass and there was no crack. The really weird part was that the water level is always kept about 2" below the upper frame. It did this for a few weeks, then just stopped. I'm theorizing that perhaps it was condensation building up inside the frame channel (where the frame rests on top of the glass), and just got to the point where it got heavy enough and ran down the glass. I bought the tank, used, in 2013 and it was in pretty bad shape, so I stripped and resiliconed the inside, but I didn't reseal where the upper frame portion. This probably is where the humidity is creeping in and building up moisture.
 
krichardson said:
...and if the tank is leaking it doesn't much matter where the leak is as the tank will have to be drained and ALL of the inner silicone will have to be removed before the tank can be resealed.
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+1 Just need to make sure that your leak isn't something like my scenario posted above.....which turned out not to be a leak at all
 
I had water leaking on a 40 gal and it turned out to be condensation coming from the top trim, dripped down the back of the tank, and it pooled in the bottom trim and gave the impression it was leaking from the bottom.

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