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The one single piece of Advise I would give to new Aquarium builders would be to build a bathtub type of container under the Tank area large enough to contain all the water that could leak from a compromised Tank . I realize that you could not reasonably protect against some thing catastrophic . But you could against a slow but tank ending one. This would give you time to save your fish and Coral , rocks ect. If the situation allowed a drain off of this to a floor drain . If not a sump pump with float activation to some where . Especially in an Apartment where Liability is a concern . Then build a decorative surround making it invisible
 

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It is an extremely functionally sound idea, but I'd argue that someone who has the financial means to have such an enclosure included in their system probably also has the financial means to put the tank somewhere that a leak wouldn't cause catastrophic damage and also have a detection system to know they need to manually intervene. I'd be curious how much something like that would cost.
 

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