What's up with the recent Red Sea Tank failures? 750XXL ? UPDATE Design Flaw CONFIRMED by Red Sea !!!

BigRick · Apr 23, 2023

Lol I thought Brandon worked for Red Sea all these years

MnFish1 · Apr 23, 2023

Cell said:
If you are bored Brandon, it would be cool to try and track how many RS seam failures have been reported on R2R over the past year or so. It feels like there is a new one every week or two lately.

If you go to 'advanced search' and search for "tank leak" you will see that this is not an issue limited to Red Sea. I did not want to take the time to do a 'study' - but a brief perusal did not suggest to me that there was an increase in RedSea tanks - as compared to others. Especially when one considers how many Red Sea tanks are sold as compared to some of the other brands.

brandon429 · Apr 23, 2023

I represent reef vase interests only but freely engage in reef forum trend pressing

Troylee · Apr 23, 2023

MnFish1 said:
If you go to 'advanced search' and search for "tank leak" you will see that this is not an issue limited to Red Sea. I did not want to take the time to do a 'study' - but a brief perusal did not suggest to me that there was an increase in RedSea tanks - as compared to others. Especially when one considers how many Red Sea tanks are sold as compared to some of the other brands.

I mean Red Sea had crap stands to start it all off…
I could see it being all sorts of tanks lately for one reason… being in the construction industry myself I’ve seen all sorts of tapes, glues, adhesives and silicone change since covid happened.. with short supply for things manufactures are changing all sorts of crap now! I’ve had some ge1200 silicone which I use daily for 30 years “normally excellent stuff” start to fail recently and a couple acrylic glues.. manufactures are trying to meet demands and changing their recipe's and it’s becoming worse.. not to mention the ever changing voc laws so they gotta keep modifying the formula to meet that criteria.

Cell · Apr 23, 2023

MnFish1 said:
If you go to 'advanced search' and search for "tank leak" you will see that this is not an issue limited to Red Sea. I did not want to take the time to do a 'study' - but a brief perusal did not suggest to me that there was an increase in RedSea tanks - as compared to others. Especially when one considers how many Red Sea tanks are sold as compared to some of the other brands.

The frequency seems to be unique to Red Sea to me. Something more than a brief perusal might be in order to really know for sure. I'm not sure I've ever seen sales #s to know how many more RS tanks exist in the wild than others.

MnFish1 · Apr 23, 2023

Cell said:
The frequency seems to be unique to Red Sea to me. Something more than a brief perusal might be in order to really know for sure. I'm not sure I've ever seen sales #s to know how many more RS tanks exist in the wild than others.

Yeah - I agree - it's impossible to tell.

SpyC · Apr 23, 2023

Should I be worried about the tank seal?

I just noticed that the seal seems to be starting to separate from my Red Sea reefer 525. I’ve had it running for 3 years now. Should this be a concern?

www.reef2reef.com

Another one

Russell23 · May 6, 2023

Red Sea reefer 350 seam just gave out and only 5 1/2 years old. Customer service didn’t help one bit. They won’t admit they made a faulty product. The glass used in the first models was too thin and only caulked the glass onto the front, not going back and caulking or reinforcing the joints. The thing glass was technically bowing causing a rip in the silicone.

Snoopdog · May 6, 2023

Russell23 said:
Red Sea reefer 350 seam just gave out and only 5 1/2 years old. Customer service didn’t help one bit. They won’t admit they made a faulty product. The glass used in the first models was too thin and only caulked the glass onto the front, not going back and caulking or reinforcing the joints. The thing glass was technically bowing causing a rip in the silicone.

Slowly or very fast? I think pointing the finger on the thickness of the glass is a red herring. There are too many of these tanks that have very thick glass doing the same thing. Sorry for your loss though.