I want to say they are threaded. I turned right and it tightened. I turned left and it got loose. now this was for only one of them tho lol whats the best method? eventually i would love to have this on a flat service in my apartment.
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I want to say they are threaded. I turned right and it tightened. I turned left and it got loose. now this was for only one of them tho lol whats the best method? eventually i would love to have this on a flat service in my apartment.
If only 1 seems threaded I'd just remove the bulkheads completely and patch.
You would apply the patch on the inside on the tank. I would generally run an additional bead of silicone from the other side as well.
You would apply the patch on the inside on the tank. I would generally run an additional bead of silicone from the other side as well.
Just take them out completly and silicone some glass down over the holes. Just get three small pieces....or six and glue three underneath.
Otherwise, you need to cap the stub of pipe, peut thread seal on the thread of stub....if it is threaded and seal the bulkhead with either a new gasket or silicone. I would remove the gasket if I were going to seal with silicone.
if the stub of pipe is slip, it may be leaking there and there is nothing to be done but to replace the bulkheads. If you replace the bulkheads, get threaded inner bulkheads and threaded plugs....
In all due repect, rigging it by siliconing the used bulkhead where it might be leaking is playing with fire so to speak....especially since these are all on the bottom.
Glue down some glass and cover the holes with waaaay more silicone then you could ever get on and around the bulkheads.
Its the gaskets that are shot. These are used for saltwater. Easiest and most effective way is to get new gaskets for the bulk heads. It will not leak anymore. Just take those and go to a LFS they should have some in stock. Cap the top of the PCV and put a ball valve on his pipe under the tank just for good measure. This way it can solid nothing will happen in the future and you can use this for water changes if you wanted to rig something underneath it.
My fathers tank sprung a leak same place where you did. He does saltwater and he drained his and put new gaskets in there and he was good to go.
If this was my tank I would do exactly what I said. Putting silicone and this and that is just a solution the real fix is to fix the problem which is a bad gasket.
My fathers tank sprung a leak same place where you did. He does saltwater and he drained his and put new gaskets in there and he was good to go.
If this was my tank I would do exactly what I said. Putting silicone and this and that is just a solution the real fix is to fix the problem which is a bad gasket.
Okay so wanting to have it on a flat Surface eventually, I decided to just put glass over the holes. I did 2 6"x12" glass sheets and 1 6"x6" glass sheet. Now only downfall is that they are not supper thick! I think I was told they where 2mm or something but I figured the holes aren't that big and that if I reinforce the bottom of the glass in the holes with the silicone, that it would be able to hold. I hope I'm not wrong lol we will know if 48hrs lol I out a bunch of that silicone on the tank haha sides and glass pieces lol
This is the exact glass I used
http://m.lowes.com/pd/Gardner-Glass...r-Windows-Cabinets-and-Picture-Frames/3121141
You probably should use thicker glass. You are running the risk of breakinng that glass with a rock or something. Other wise it looks like you did a good job. You could maybe put another peice of that glass over top of the ones you have installed.
Problem was that I'm on a deadline for it to get done since I have my fish in a 45gallon trash can and not all are nice fish lol I don't use heavy rocks in my tank and I honestly use maybe about 1 1/2" - 2" of gravel....I think it will hold because I'm sealing the hole too with the sealant. Possibly get another thicker glass on the bottom of it too.
