CR@P!!!!! Newly set up 220g sw reef cracked tonight!!!!!
 

Midnight - hear loud noise & then loud water spraying noise. Thought it was my return pump coming off the hose. No such luck!

The front Starphire pane cracked from the bottom left corner to almost the top right corner. Water shooting out hard enough to wet my couch. Carpet is soaked. Tile is wet & slippery. How wet & slippery? Enough to send me flying in the kitchen when I went to grab buckets. Left rib cage is hurt so Irene is stuck with alot of the heavy lifting. Only have one good side to help. She's such a trooper. Honestly don't give my loving wife enough props.

Pulled all the live rock, corals & fish & almost everything is now in the 120g which I luckily didn't sell off yet (it was pending). Turned off all power to the tank & added powerheads to the 120g & now got to add a skimmer too.

Back to the clean up.

Only silver lining is that it didn't happen while we were on vacation (got back Sunday afternoon).

Anthony

Ouch......... sorry to hear Anthony.

The the glass actually crack or did a seam bust?

Need any help........ call just let me know....... I sleep late.

Good luck.

Cheers,
Vic

Silicone is fine. The front pane completely cracked, in almost the exact same place as the original busted pane (this is a free CL tank that we rebuilt by replacing the front cracked pane with a sheet of expensive Starphire glass). I strongly suspect that there is some flaw in how the frame or the tank was originally manufactured that has caused it to crack in the same place & same way both times.

Oh boy. So do you think your going to get another 6 footer?

Cheers,
Vic

Looking for a 180g or tank with 6' x 2' footprint. Couldn't find any on BCA or CL. Going to check Canreef now.

Anthony

Well if there are any saltwater fish that need to be re-homed.......:wink:

Wow what a kick in the face that was Anthony sorry to hear about it and the livestock and corals back in the water safe and sound. Imagine being a fish and hearing that. Holy crap someone is trying to catch us today again.:biggrin:

OH NO! Anthony that is terrible. :sad: I hope you find a tank quickly and get back to feeling better too. And YES, you are so lucky that Irene is such a wonderful wife and willing to help out. :biggrin:

Sorry to hear this Anthony. One of our worse nightmares I guess. Hope your side feels better soon and you find another tank for your fishies.

that really sucks. I hope the cleaning up went ok.