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11/21/2007, 01:27 AM
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IT LIVES!!! also .... thank you
First off,
Thank you to everyone who left me kind words of encouragement both in these forums and in real life and also the Staff at ATR. If it wasn't for everyone involved I would of left the hobby feeling all together defeated and disgusted and ended up selling everything off. After some poking and prodding by certain members of the community and lots of help in the right directions both for replacement supplies and parts I would of never of gotten to this point so soon. For those of you who don't know what happened, basically my stand for my 126g Cube was slightly offset due to water warping that took place recently on the stand before this tank was placed on it. I never thought to check this because it "seemed' ok. Unfortunately the bottom of the tank cracked due to a pressure and I had 126 gallons of water flooding into the house. This did no damage to the house but it did on my outlook within this hobby. I recently got a new bottom pane of glass from David B. at seaside aquariums for about 1/8 of the cost of a new tank and just finished installing it on the tank. I thought I'd share some pictures with everyone so they can see what happened and some of the parts of the rebuild of the tank. It was pretty easy for me to do since I have done it in the past, but if you are in a similar situation seek help and guidance, if needed I can always point you in the right direction. But enough chat, here are some pictures  First the original aftermath of the tank ...      
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11/21/2007, 01:28 AM
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And the tank with the bottom section removed, if your going to do this make sure you remove everything, do not leave any silicone at all on the tank and after that clean it with alcohol before putting any silicone.
     The new pane of glass waiting to be installed 
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11/21/2007, 01:28 AM
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And the tank sealed up after a lot of silicone which has been cleaned up.
  
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11/21/2007, 01:30 AM
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And then here is the tank completely full of water the end of a full leak test for 5 days. No loosing of any water at all, so I'm happy, I'm going to do one more leak test to be sure tho.
      the fun tools I used to "remove" the cracked bottom pane, no worries to those who have done this before me and my g/f did this and she's worked with glass a lot so there were no cracks on the existing tank that wasn't damaged. A note of caution, my g/f is out of premed and in full med school, she has very steady hands and is methodical about many things but she managed to cut her hand very badly so use CAUTION if your going to remove glass from a tank. 
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11/21/2007, 01:40 PM
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Good Work!
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11/21/2007, 01:48 PM
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Wow... sorry to hear! And glad to hear that you are back in...
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