serpent
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So, I was asked if I had a build thread on my new 93 cube. I don't share much :crossedlips:
So my journey began when we moved into our new house and what I thought was the perfect place for my 120 gallon was quickly shot down by my wife. She wanted matching book cases on each side of the fireplace. In racking my brain, I had to come up with a way to be able to get a new tank, that I felt was large enough for the fish I wanted. The only problem was I was limited by space in my office, which coincidentally is the only safe place in the house from my three little ones. I only had 36"x36" to work with. Well I went and talked to my LFS and told them what I had and what I wanted to do. We quickly started looking around for something in those dimensions. (Un)Fortunately the Marineland 150 was discontinued and the only thing that was close to those dimensions was the 93 gallon. So I purchased the tank in December and started a LONG build.
This wouldn't have been such a long build if I didn't want a fish room in the basement. With only being able to work on the room on the weekends and doing the work by myself, it is taking much longer than anticipated.
I was finally at the point this weekend that I was able to get water from the basement to the tank in my office, so I was stoked to fresh water test the new tank. This is where it all went wrong. When the water was more than half way up the tank, I started noticing micro bubbles in the seams. I wasn't so concerned at that point as I had seen others with this too. What concerned me was that the front top seam seemed to be separating from the other panel. By the time I noticed this, the water was flowing through the overflow and back down to the basement. I started investigating the front seam to see if I should be concerned. As soon as I touched the panels, I watched the seam flex and i could move the two panels of glass. I shut off all the water, grabbed as many pumps as I could and started pumping water to the basement and out the window in my office. I didn't know how long the seam would last and didn't want 93 gallons of water in our house. MY WIFE WOULD HAVE KILLED ME!!!!
I contacted Marineland today to start the RMA process on getting a new tank. Hopefully they will get that to me soon.
Here are some pictures up to this point.
Here is a picture of the tank and the custom stand I built to hold it. The doors are not on it right now as I needed all the room to work under the tank and really don't need to hide anything yet.
Here is a couple of pictures of the basement being finished.
Now for a picture of the tank seam
So my journey began when we moved into our new house and what I thought was the perfect place for my 120 gallon was quickly shot down by my wife. She wanted matching book cases on each side of the fireplace. In racking my brain, I had to come up with a way to be able to get a new tank, that I felt was large enough for the fish I wanted. The only problem was I was limited by space in my office, which coincidentally is the only safe place in the house from my three little ones. I only had 36"x36" to work with. Well I went and talked to my LFS and told them what I had and what I wanted to do. We quickly started looking around for something in those dimensions. (Un)Fortunately the Marineland 150 was discontinued and the only thing that was close to those dimensions was the 93 gallon. So I purchased the tank in December and started a LONG build.
This wouldn't have been such a long build if I didn't want a fish room in the basement. With only being able to work on the room on the weekends and doing the work by myself, it is taking much longer than anticipated.
I was finally at the point this weekend that I was able to get water from the basement to the tank in my office, so I was stoked to fresh water test the new tank. This is where it all went wrong. When the water was more than half way up the tank, I started noticing micro bubbles in the seams. I wasn't so concerned at that point as I had seen others with this too. What concerned me was that the front top seam seemed to be separating from the other panel. By the time I noticed this, the water was flowing through the overflow and back down to the basement. I started investigating the front seam to see if I should be concerned. As soon as I touched the panels, I watched the seam flex and i could move the two panels of glass. I shut off all the water, grabbed as many pumps as I could and started pumping water to the basement and out the window in my office. I didn't know how long the seam would last and didn't want 93 gallons of water in our house. MY WIFE WOULD HAVE KILLED ME!!!!
I contacted Marineland today to start the RMA process on getting a new tank. Hopefully they will get that to me soon.
Here are some pictures up to this point.
Here is a picture of the tank and the custom stand I built to hold it. The doors are not on it right now as I needed all the room to work under the tank and really don't need to hide anything yet.
Here is a couple of pictures of the basement being finished.
Now for a picture of the tank seam
