my tank "popped" after being sealed

[kdrun76]

When you make your beads, put a bead the same thickness (or thicker) as in your tank on a sandwich bag and lay the sandwich bag into the tank.

BEFORE you fill the tank back up.... use a razor blade to cut into the bead on the bag. It will give you a good measure of how well cured the beads on the glass are.

 

[Bderick67]

This is a 30" tall tank, right? This creates alot of water pressure at the bottom of the side panels. If the bond of the silicone has been compromised between any of the side panels and the bottom glass you are in for repeated failures. Without this bond your side glass will bow and stretch the silicone that you applied for sealing, it can only stretch so much until it tears away from the glass causing a leak.

 

[Miguel4u2]

This is a 30" tall tank, right? This creates alot of water pressure at the bottom of the side panels. If the bond of the silicone has been compromised between any of the side panels and the bottom glass you are in for repeated failures. Without this bond your side glass will bow and stretch the silicone that you applied for sealing, it can only stretch so much until it tears away from the glass causing a leak.

only he bottom has had a leak, so are you saying that there is not way to fix this? and yeah, it is a 30 inch tall edit: forgot to mention that it has no center brace but the glass is 1/2" thick and i did checked for bowing by looking and by placing a straight ruler on the front to check if it was straight and it seemed like it was. how would you reseal a tank like this? thanks

 

[Bderick67]

Depends on how far you want to tear down the tank. I gave up on my 110x after the second fail, the guy who I sold it to also was unable to successfully reseal. It's alot more work when you are having to separate the glass panels from one another.

 

[Miguel4u2]

Depends on how far you want to tear down the tank. I gave up on my 110x after the second fail, the guy who I sold it to also was unable to successfully reseal. It's alot more work when you are having to separate the glass panels from one another.

i will give it one more try and if it fails then i have a new bearded dragon tank, lol. thanks a lot.

 

[dmopar74]

remove the bottom panel, clean everything up, apply silicone and bottom panel onto upside down tank, apply some weight. after thats done curing reseal interior of tank.

 

[Miguel4u2]

remove the bottom panel, clean everything up, apply silicone and bottom panel onto upside down tank, apply some weight. after thats done curing reseal interior of tank.

i don't understand what you wrote, can you please describe?

 

[Bderick67]

remove the bottom panel, clean everything up, apply silicone and bottom panel onto upside down tank, apply some weight. after thats done curing reseal interior of tank.

I don't think this will work, though depends on how tank is built. I believe the only the two end panels rest upon the bottom glass. Whereas the front and back panels have the bottom glass situated between them.

 

[dmopar74]

I don't think this will work, though depends on how tank is built. I believe the only the two end panels rest upon the bottom glass. Whereas the front and back panels have the bottom glass situated between them.

perhaps, but i have yet to encounter a tank built differently IME.

 

[dmopar74]

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134988


and as far as glass vs acrylic, ive had a 360g acrylic really "pop" a seam on me before, not fun! ive yet to have a glass tank leak on me, but if i find questionable silicone i will reseal before a leak occurs. its all personal preference.