I find that interesting because of the delamination of the seams and not failure/crumbling of the silicone. Could be wrong though. Aquarium safe silicone is pretty straight forward as far as chemical composition goes and the chemical reaction that takes place to bond the glass. The actual bonding is more mechanical though as the Si-O bond is very strong.
Quoting myself - I really think it's due to crappy Chinese made glass with high impurities which causes molecular flaws along the seams. It's the same reason we didn't use Chinese Steel when I was an engineer in O&G when molecular makeup as it relates to mechanical properties becomes insanely important.
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The aquarium shown is definitely not a G2. It is one of the older models.
Do you have any suggestions about how I could reinforce the stand on my 350 to prevent this from happening?
That's untrue, there are a couple of reports of G2 and even G2+ failures on the "uncensored Redsea" facebook page. But no reported failures that I have seen of the G2+ MAX-S premium line or the MAX-S older premium lin
I know, but so far I haven’t found someone willing to show proof that it’s a G2. That’s what I’m looking for
I feel your pain I took the discount on a new 750 and a month later it’s leaking…. They sent me a replacement, but I’m afraid to set it up…
Sorry, but unfortuantly no. I'm not very knowledgeable in this subject and I would hate to give wrong advice. #reefsqaud?
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So they are talking in this forum about the silicone being the problem. They say that red sea is using a 2k silicone that is fast curing, hence you have a faster production. They also talk about other companies using 1k silicone that forms an acetic net. But that takes 1day per mm to dry, so a tank with 15 mm glass takes 14 days before it can be moved.Red Sea Reefer 350 G2 catastrophic failure
Sorry to hear this. I purchased a reefer 425 G2+ in Nov 2023, the ATO that came with the tank malfunctioned less than a year. Contacted red sea support, and they insisted on their weird "warranty policy", can't deilver the replacement parts directly to me. Instead they could only deilver the...
Interesting. Faster cure = faster out the door maybe? Even if you cure faster, it's still going to sit for at least a month or more prior to seeing water. Doesn't seem like the best choice for something as insanely critical as the only thing keeping potentially hundreds of gallons of saltwater off your hardwood floors.
It's funny coz back in the days we used to build a steel frames tank and the glass was embedded in putty. My first tank was like that and that was a hand down from my dad, that thing would have been 20 years running no problem.Interesting. Faster cure = faster out the door maybe? Even if you cure faster, it's still going to sit for at least a month or more prior to seeing water. Doesn't seem like the best choice for something as insanely critical as the only thing keeping potentially hundreds of gallons of saltwater off your hardwood floors.
It doesn’t matter because the issue is 2 part
Interesting. Faster cure = faster out the door maybe? Even if you cure faster, it's still going to sit for at least a month or more prior to seeing water. Doesn't seem like the best choice for something as insanely critical as the only thing keeping potentially hundreds of gallons of saltwater off your hardwood floors.
I feel like some of the threads we've seen with the side-seals show that the burst isn't from silicone de-laminating from the glass itself, but the silicone itself rupturing as you can see silicone still adhered to both surfaces.
