Please Help Me 330 gallon leak

[feelingfishy]

OK, Im going to get right to the point my 330 gallon has sprang a leak after the silcone got old and seperated. abOUT 150 GALLONS RAN OUT INTO MY NEW FLOOR!!!. But, im over that right now i have all my fish and rocks safe for a limited time in a 55 gallon spare i had. Can anyone tell me if it is possible to fix the tank without taking it down??

 

[jackri]

Possibly... if the leak is in the upper part of the tank and can be dried to re-apply the silicone.. but I would always be nervous of that tank from then on with the other old silicone

 

[feelingfishy]

Well, i think possibly the rest of the silcone will be fine. But, i will admit i kinda let the tank go downhill a little bit because of finances but i should have payed more attention to the tank cause i could see it was bowing a little but i thought it was nothing. Then the top support broke then 2 weeks later sprang the leak. So i belive it would be fine to resilcone the area first then build a support for it. I just wanted to get some secound hand advise.

 

[jackri]

I've never worked with the glass and silicone -- hopefully someone here has and will give better advice. I've only worked with acrylic -- but redoing the support and silicone should work IMO -- just no experience there.

 

[feelingfishy]

thanks jackri for your quick response

 

[steve102571]

I tried to fix my 55qt. I did everything text book in terms or repairs and it leaked again. IMO once a leaker, always a leaker

 

[scsinet]

What is your plan for fixing the cross brace?

 

[meowzer]

That's a lot of water to take a chance with...IMO....

 

[flower]

I didn't know glass bowed??? That is scary, I thought that only happened to acrylic tanks.
What, do they just get old one day and that happens???

 

[feelingfishy]

Well im going to try to cut that side of the silicone and add a wood support to it and see what happens thanks for the advice.