Redsea - tank leaking - poor aquarium manufacture ?

[Tidywork]

I owned ( because I’m about to smash it to bits ! ) a Redsea XL300
Only released in late 2019 so less than 3 year old !!
Today In the middle of the night a sound of water downstairs woke me up and guess what ! This tank starting leaking water ! Not dripping but gushing out !
after sorting all the mess I’ve located leaking point and it’s a silicone bead ( seems like a starting or ending point )


to Think that I wanted a bigger redsea ( 625 g2 ) ..

Am I that one unlucky guy ? Or is redsea rather consistent in such poor manufacture !!!

 

[FishOkay]

To be fair I do see/hear a lot of seam failures with red sea tanks from this forum and the red sea owners page on Facebook. I think it's becoming a bit of a trend unfortunately.

 

[jhans1]

I owned ( because I’m about to smash it to bits ! ) a Redsea XL300
Only released in late 2019 so less than 3 year old !!
Today In the middle of the night a sound of water downstairs woke me up and guess what ! This tank starting leaking water ! Not dripping but gushing out !
after sorting all the mess I’ve located leaking point and it’s a silicone bead ( seems like a starting or ending point )


to Think that I wanted a bigger redsea ( 625 g2 ) ..

Am I that one unlucky guy ? Or is redsea rather consistent in such poor manufacture !!! This from 2019?

I owned ( because I’m about to smash it to bits ! ) a Redsea XL300
Only released in late 2019 so less than 3 year old !!
Today In the middle of the night a sound of water downstairs woke me up and guess what ! This tank starting leaking water ! Not dripping but gushing out !
after sorting all the mess I’ve located leaking point and it’s a silicone bead ( seems like a starting or ending point )


to Think that I wanted a bigger redsea ( 625 g2 ) ..

Am I that one unlucky guy ? Or is redsea rather consistent in such poor manufacture !!!

This tank is bought in 2019?

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

Ouch. Sorry for your headache.
Fwiw this is the reason I went acrylic.
I recommend acrylic tanks for anything over say 100gals.
Bonded seams. No beads of silicon to leak.
-d

 

[Andreas' Reef]

I owned ( because I’m about to smash it to bits ! ) a Redsea XL300
Only released in late 2019 so less than 3 year old !!
Today In the middle of the night a sound of water downstairs woke me up and guess what ! This tank starting leaking water ! Not dripping but gushing out !
after sorting all the mess I’ve located leaking point and it’s a silicone bead ( seems like a starting or ending point )


to Think that I wanted a bigger redsea ( 625 g2 ) ..

Am I that one unlucky guy ? Or is redsea rather consistent in such poor manufacture !!!

Red sea makes amazing aquarium kits, but it might be an issue in manufacturingt, Haven't heard much about malfunctioning

 

[fishguy242]

bummer, you are not alone, try a search on here,have seen many over last couple of years.
reach out to Red sea ,not going to fix the mess you have, but may still replace /help upgrade with new tank.
think they are paying a little more attention to workmanship after tons of seam failures.

 

[Andreas' Reef]

bummer, you are not alone, try a search on here,have seen many over last couple of years.
reach out to Red sea ,not going to fix the mess you have, but may still replace /help upgrade with new tank.
think they are paying a little more attention to workmanship after tons of seam failures.

Yeah, I hope they get their stuff together. My dad wants to start a red sea max mixed reef setup as a father son thing, even though I'M the big reefer XD . I'm really happy he's getting into the hobby though.