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This is no longer an emergency but I want to post it here to ask for advice.
About 6 months ago I noticed a line of dried up water that had run down from the top corner of the end of one of my 180s. It had not reached the bottom before it dried up. When I looked at the top of the glass I discovered a small (maybe 10 mm) crack in the glass. Not knowing what to do I did nothing to see if it would not get any worse since it was not leaking.
Somewhat in denial I measured it every week and the crack was slowly advancing but not leaking except for a very small amount of salt creep directly on the crack. I was hoping that it would stop running but last week the crack has advanced to about 110 mm and I was dreading a catastrophic tank failure when the whole end glass would crack open. I drained it and started thinking about replacing the tank.
Yesterday I thought about making a gigantic patch on the end of the tank. Since the end glass is inside of the front and back glass, the edges of the front and back glass are flush with the surface of the cracked end glass. I wonder if I could get a piece of glass the same size as the end that would overlap the front and back glass edges, several tubes of silicone and plaster it on the end of the tank?
I welcome all comments. Hopefully someone with a lot more experience with this will advise me what I should do. The yellow line if roughly where the crack is.
About 6 months ago I noticed a line of dried up water that had run down from the top corner of the end of one of my 180s. It had not reached the bottom before it dried up. When I looked at the top of the glass I discovered a small (maybe 10 mm) crack in the glass. Not knowing what to do I did nothing to see if it would not get any worse since it was not leaking.
Somewhat in denial I measured it every week and the crack was slowly advancing but not leaking except for a very small amount of salt creep directly on the crack. I was hoping that it would stop running but last week the crack has advanced to about 110 mm and I was dreading a catastrophic tank failure when the whole end glass would crack open. I drained it and started thinking about replacing the tank.
Yesterday I thought about making a gigantic patch on the end of the tank. Since the end glass is inside of the front and back glass, the edges of the front and back glass are flush with the surface of the cracked end glass. I wonder if I could get a piece of glass the same size as the end that would overlap the front and back glass edges, several tubes of silicone and plaster it on the end of the tank?
I welcome all comments. Hopefully someone with a lot more experience with this will advise me what I should do. The yellow line if roughly where the crack is.
