That Murphy fellow can stick his law where the sun don't shine.

[Mrfish55]

It was salt, figure I lost about 10 gallons. Inspection of the trouble seam shows 4 small spots about an inch apart where the silicone failed to bond, looks like someone with oily fingers picked up the piece of glass during assembly.

[Lance]

Holy crap Dave! I just saw this thread. (Was away and missed it).
Wow, good thing you were home at the time! Still sucks though. Makes me wonder about my 90g bow.

[Mrfish55]

That's why Bob would never carry bow fronts in stock, failure rate was too high. You should be fine with yours, mine was el-cheepo all glass brand, make a good hamster cage for someone, would be an easy fix but been there done that, too old for rebuilding tanks, most likely toss it in the recycle bin.
I am just glad it did not drip into the 300, think that would have been the end for me.

[Myka]

Things like this scare the crap out of me. I'm glad it was a small-ish disaster for you rather than a big disaster. Although if you had water dripping through the ceiling to the lower floor you could very well have a lot of work to do to fix it up.

Think on the bright side, at least it didn't spray saltwater onto the electrical and burn your house down. That scares me the most.

[Mrfish55]

Lucky for me I put a drop ceiling in the fish room, only have 2 tiles to replace. There was a power bar that got wet but it tripped the gfci so I was lucky that way. Trying to convince my boy to do away with that tank but he has allways had a tank in his room and wants a replacement, I guess I'll have to buck up as I really have nowhere to put that livestock anyway.

[Myka]

Mine is all on GFCI too, but I still worry...