I was cleaning the glass and found something I'm not used to seeing... a little saltcreep around a fine vertical line near the back right corner of my 60-gallon Marineland rimless cube tank. I cleaned it off and found a vertical hairline crack starting and beginning at the edge of the right-side pane of the glass. The two panes of glass aren't completely flush, either. It's flush at the top but then the back panel regresses to maybe half a mm at the bottom.
More facts:
- It's only two-years old.
- It's on the Marineland oak stand that it came with.
- It's on an entirely level surface.
- Nothing has bumped it.
- There is no rock resting against it.
- There is no wave-maker.
- It wasn't damaged during shipping.
- It wasn't there before.
I'm waiting to hear back from the store. They're contacting the supplier for next steps but in the meantime I'm really stressing out about it. This is bad, right? Should I try patching it with a piece of glass and silicone on the outside to temporarily strengthen it? Should I lower the water level to reduce the stress on the glass? If this thing busts we're probably looking at a $12,000 insurance claim here as I'm on the second floor of a condo.
Here is a photo (should be rotated 90 degrees left)...
