Seam failure?

[Kooma]

I'm currently looking for a new tank. Reached out to planet aquariums as this tank is only 6 years old. Told my wife about it a few minutes ago and she told me to order what I want. I'll have to look for someone to help with holding coral and fish until I get a new tank if I decide to stay in hobby..... Or sell everything real quick which would be hard to do. We'll see what today brings in my tank search.

I’d buy a pond tote, and put it in the basement with everything over selling it all.

Where are you from? I’m sure a local reefer could help.

 

[Reefanatik]

I’d buy a pond tote, and put it in the basement with everything over selling it all.

Where are you from? I’m sure a local reefer could help.

I'm 1 hour south of Houston. I already have a 300g tote available. i used it to store everything during my move a couple of months ago.

 

[UncommonSense]

going to have my aquarium built like a tank with the extra protective inside seams. we'll see.

Thee seam protectors used by almost every single manufacturer are just strips of plastic, stuck in the corners to prevent over-enthusiastic algae scraping from causing structural seam damage…

These seam protectors do next to nothing for a tank’s ability to hold itself together, hence my deep dive into glass rod cutting, to make my own real seam reinforcements!

 

[W31Olds]

Thee seam protectors used by almost every single manufacturer are just strips of plastic, stuck in the corners to prevent over-enthusiastic algae scraping from causing structural seam damage…

These seam protectors do next to nothing for a tank’s ability to hold itself together, hence my deep dive into glass rod cutting, to make my own real seam reinforcements!

So would you think a Standard Seam is stronger or a Seam with Seam Protector? Reason I'm asking is I finally got my new Waterbox Tank and it has no vertical seam protectors. I thought this odd that a $10K Tank does not have them. Even odder still is there are Seam Protectors, however they are around the bottom perimeter of the Tank.
I called WB and inquired about this, but Technical Support never got back to me.

 

[UncommonSense]

So would you think a Standard Seam is stronger or a Seam with Seam Protector? Reason I'm asking is I finally got my new Waterbox Tank and it has no vertical seam protectors. I thought this odd that a $10K Tank does not have them. Even odder still is there are Seam Protectors, however they are around the bottom perimeter of the Tank.
I called WB and inquired about this, but Technical Support never got back to me.

I think the structural seam strength (from the perspective of the tank trying to rip itself apart due to hydrostatic force) is quite similar between protected, and unprotected vertical seams (When plastic is used)! The protectors primarily help with glass scraping, and keeping the likes of coralline algae from creeping into the structural seams! (A sacrificial barrier)

The plastic protectors are siliconed in place, sometimes pre-treated with chemical etching to help silicone adhesion… however, they are still quite flexible, and wouldn’t appreciably resist the top-down seam peeling effect (often seen on rimless tanks, particularly those from RS)!

If I had to guess, WB omitted the vertical seam protectors on your tank to minimize the “bulk” of those visible seams!