So sad

[pandafish]

Good morning all. Here is my sad story. We made my daughter a nano tank, it was doing great, the chemistry was right on the critters were doing well. Then we ran into a bit of hair algae. So we did all the tests and changed some water flow, filtration and fed them a bit less. Things were doing fine but that algae was being a bugger. So after much deliberation we decided to go with a Nano skimmer. Got one about a week ago. So last night my daughter comes in and says my tank is broken... we go in and low and behold a crack running down the side of the tank leaking streams of water. Nothing hit it. Looks like a stress crack. Fortunately we have a QT tank set up and seasoned. everything went in there, by midnight we were all cleaned up. So now we start again rethink design, rebuild and hope nothing dies in the mean time.
I am posting pictures if any one has any idea of where we went wrong we are all ears.

 

[sig45]

that sucks

 

[scsinet]

Hmm... almost looks like the piece of glass/acrylic glued in to form the filter compartment pushed too hard on the glass??
At least you were able to save everything!

I can't imagine how I'd feel... personally or financially if I lost my reef system.

 

[pandafish]

So far so good everything is holding up ok in the 20 gal QT. Also 15 lbs of live sand in a 5 gal bucket with pump and heater.
Everything was fine until...
SCSInet Hindsight is always 20/20 but...we added a Ramora HOB Nano skimmer last week. The weight of the full skimmer put too much stress on the back glass of the tank, inturn too much stress on the side glass where the filter wall (Black Acrylic) meets the side glass. Too bad it had just started to produce skim!

 

[scsinet]

It's a great learning experience anytime something happens and you don't lose livestock. At least you didn't lose any of your animals.

 

[pandafish]

Ok we moved everything to the QT tank all seems to be ok but now check out one of the BTAs looks like it got pinched in the move. Any thoughts?