Leak testing: bubbles found

[CamoFan]

Good evening fellow fish brained folk.

I picked up a 35G cube yesterday from FB marketplace for $100 and it’s an AIO with overflow. I have it setup right now where it will rest and I found some bubbles in the middle of the silicone in the left and right of the top corners of the tank. I can attach some pics.

Should I be concerned about these bubbles being as they’re at the top of the tank and above the waterline? Most of the pressure in the tank should be towards the bottom which I see nothing. No leaks or bubbles seen anywhere else.

Worst case scenario is I either buy a new 35G tank. But could I potentially do a DIY eurobrace along the sides using acrylic/glass?

 

[Formulator]

I don’t think they are a huge deal. Nor do I think they will lead to catastrophic failure (exploding tank). If anything there could be a leak, but I doubt it. My tank is really old (like 15 years) and has a few bubbles like that I’ve never worried much about.

 

[CamoFan]

I don’t think they are a huge deal. Nor do I think they will lead to catastrophic failure (exploding tank). If anything there could be a leak, but I doubt it. My tank is really old (like 15 years) and has a few bubbles like that I’ve never worried much about.

That gives me some comfort! Also went to Reddit and my local FB reef group and got similar input. A leak I can handle because I still have my old 20G long. Catastrophic on the other hand… I’m in a second floor apartment. You can guess what happens there.

 

[KrisReef]

That gives me some comfort! Also went to Reddit and my local FB reef group and got similar input. A leak I can handle because I still have my old 20G long. Catastrophic on the other hand… I’m in a second floor apartment. You can guess what happens there.

35 years ago we lived in a bottom floor apartment and had a few large aquariums set up. The elderly lady who lived above us got distracted while she was drawing a bath and the ceiling and walls got wet and left a water mark. When we moved out the stupid niece of the landlord wouldn’t refund our cleaning deposit because she blamed us for the water damage.

We liked the landlord, Rod was a good guy. He had spent 60k on repaving the parking lot and our rescue rabbit Blackie, a lop we found in a busy intersection in Sacramento had dug a huge tunnel from inside of our patio out underneath the new parking lot. I patched the hole when we moved out and I don’t think they ever put together what the rabbit had done because the niece was so certain that our aquarium had leaked out from the upstairs bathroom somehow?

Always get rental insurance. :cool:

 

[Tamberav]

35 years ago we lived in a bottom floor apartment and had a few large aquariums set up. The elderly lady who lived above us got distracted while she was drawing a bath and the ceiling and walls got wet and left a water mark. When we moved out the stupid niece of the landlord wouldn’t refund our cleaning deposit because she blamed us for the water damage.

We liked the landlord, Rod was a good guy. He had spent 60k on repaving the parking lot and our rescue rabbit Blackie, a lop we found in a busy intersection in Sacramento had dug a huge tunnel from inside of our patio out underneath the new parking lot. I patched the hole when we moved out and I don’t think they ever put together what the rabbit had done because the niece was so certain that our aquarium had leaked out from the upstairs bathroom somehow?

Always get rental insurance. :cool:

Ugh lost part of our deposit in our last place because they installed basically cardboard for flooring and cheap stick on tiles in the bathroom. We lived there 5 years so it just doesn’t hold up, it’s not meant for kitchens or bathrooms or high traffic areas. We basically bought them a new floor with that deposit.

Maybe they will install the same $1 per foot flooring and take the next person deposit and pocket the excess.

 

[KrisReef]

Ugh lost part of our deposit in our last place because they installed basically cardboard for flooring and cheap stick on tiles in the bathroom. We lived there 5 years so it just doesn’t hold up, it’s not meant for kitchens or bathrooms or high traffic areas. We basically bought them a new floor with that deposit.

Maybe they will install the same $1 per foot flooring and take the next person deposit and pocket the excess.

The next place we moved to had carpet in the bathroom, probably 15 years old and it stunk from all those years of salt creep. I tore it out when we moved in and laid down linoleum in the bathroom. The air was much fresher in the place afterwards.

The roof in that place also leaked and water dripped into our microwave oven and they refused to replace it.

I flooded that downstairs floor when my in-laws came to visit. I was doing a water change in the reef and had pumped the replacement water from a barrel into the tank and my wife hurried me out to get them from the airport. The tank siphoned back into the barrel and flooded the front room.

My Mother in Law always insisted that I had done it on purpose.

The shop vac picked up the water good enough and that landlord never suspected that I had flooded the entire front room. Same carpet as was attached to the bathroom I refloored, what a dump.

 

[CamoFan]

35 years ago we lived in a bottom floor apartment and had a few large aquariums set up. The elderly lady who lived above us got distracted while she was drawing a bath and the ceiling and walls got wet and left a water mark. When we moved out the stupid niece of the landlord wouldn’t refund our cleaning deposit because she blamed us for the water damage.

We liked the landlord, Rod was a good guy. He had spent 60k on repaving the parking lot and our rescue rabbit Blackie, a lop we found in a busy intersection in Sacramento had dug a huge tunnel from inside of our patio out underneath the new parking lot. I patched the hole when we moved out and I don’t think they ever put together what the rabbit had done because the niece was so certain that our aquarium had leaked out from the upstairs bathroom somehow?

Always get rental insurance. :cool:

Yup, I have an either a 100K or 300K policy for $23/month. Should about cover any damage that my fish tank could do. I’ll have to double check to see what it is in reality though.

 

[KrisReef]

Yup, I have an either a 100K or 300K policy for $23/month. Should about cover any damage that my fish tank could do. I’ll have to double check to see what it is in reality though.

Yes, I am not a policy expert but a leaking drain pipe ruined flooring and wall and cabinets in our kitchen for about $30K. just for damage repairs. We didn't loose any personal items or stuff, but i would look to see what the policy is going to pay out if you ruin property belonging to the people below, or if it pays for their moving costs, or?

I always carried life insurance because if my tank broke I would probably have jumped off a bridge with grief. Not because I ruined other peoples stuff but because I lost my fishes and corals.:face-with-rolling-eyes: