Leaking or just trapped water?

Andrewalex11 · Sep 8, 2017

So I noticed a very small ooze of water (barely anything at all) around the bottom of my aquarium. Every time I wipe it away as best as I can it just comes right back after a few seconds. It is even across the entire bottom of the aquarium there is no single location it comes out across the whole bottom.

There was an incident the other day where about 1.5 gallons of water was pumped out of the aquarium and pretty much sat on the stand all night and I'm sure seeped underneath.

Should I be concearned of a leak? Or am I just going crazy

Steven91 · Sep 8, 2017

i would say its a leak, i would double check around your corners and look for a bead of water. it doesnt sound bad yet

Andrewalex11 · Sep 9, 2017

So I found 0 points of exit for water I took out all my rock (my sandbed is very thin) and I spent a good 20 minutes digging holes all over searching and feeling the entire aquarium and I didn't find a single thing. This is a brand new aquarium that was leak tested literally a week ago and has only been holding water for 3 days.

I do have a theory I believe that a small entrance point on the back of the aquarium caused all of any water (which was a few gallons during the minor incident) to enter and roll towards the front. It's the most plausible theory of why there's this absolutely almost nothing amount of water coming out 30 minutes+ after each time I wipe it.

We will see in the morning though!

Steven91 · Sep 9, 2017

It could be, I would also check your seals on the overflows if your tank has them

Andrewalex11 · Sep 9, 2017

There's no overflows the sump is internal.

maroun.c · Sep 9, 2017

Maybe chexk if a pump is causing some splashing that somehow is going out of the tank?

Andrewalex11 · Sep 9, 2017

Finally found the issue and it was exactly what I had thought a bunch of water that had got trapped underneath the aquariums lower support brace was seeping out. it was just coming out very slowly due to the fact that about 250lbs of pressure was keeping it from escaping very easily!

Huge relief