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Woke up this morning and found not only was my fluval 305 canister filter leaking, but the top center brace had failed at the bowfront. I went into panic mode and used my mountain trekking poles to clamp the top of the tank to keep it in it's original shape. After that I applied aquarium safe 2-ton epoxy to where the brace had broken. Then went to home depot and had an aluminum brace made for redundancy. Hoping it will hold for a while until I can make up a euro brace or something more practical... I feel pretty confident in the repair, but at the same time I'm worried cause I'm on day three of my first reef aquarium (still cycling the tank so I do not want to drain it and start from scratch again), so there is still much I have to learn, i just wish I wasn't always learning through trial by fire! Lol. Oh well, it comes with the territory of the hobby. My first three days have been pretty hectic (also realized that the $350 worth of live rock I just purchased is riddled with aptasia/feather dusters, and a friend of mine suggested just giving the live rock a freshwater bath to kill everything and start them from scratch. I said fk that!!)