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11-17-2010, 04:20 PM
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My tank stresses me out most days I look at it. Probably because it's never the way I want it to be since I am rarely home to work on it. But ya, that first fill...that's a real stresser!
 
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11-17-2010, 04:22 PM
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Yeah that stand was insanely overbuilt but you still hear the thing settle with all that weight on it. Dead level etc but still made a few noises.
The following horror in that saga was when I realized I had tiled the wall the tank was in a little too close to the front pane. It did have some bowing and I couldn't slide a piece of paper between the tile ledge in the front and the pane. I drained it immediately and ripped those tiles off intending to lay new ones further away from the front.
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11-17-2010, 04:24 PM
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Funny, I never thought about it. When I got my first big tank, I just filled it. Call it inexperience, but I didn't even think about it bursting or leaking. In future with the more experience I have, I wouldn't do that again. So I probably would freak a bit, on any future fills.
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11-17-2010, 04:32 PM
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I've decided to wait until after I get back from vacation to fill it. Don't want to leave my GF with a 180g of water that may or may not explode. No, that would not be a good thing to come home to
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11-17-2010, 05:28 PM
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How did you manage to work that deal? Go on a vacation without the missus? I need to know this ploy!
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11-17-2010, 05:29 PM
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12-09-2010, 06:06 PM
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12-09-2010, 07:07 PM
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