n8zirkle
Community Member
From this
to this
because of this
Back at the end of April, I came home from work to my Gyre sucking air into the tank because the water was a little lower than normal. My brain quickly decided to get water back into the tank to remedy the situation, just chalking it up to the auto top off not re-filling the tank and went on with some other chores around the house. I was out of the house for a few hours and when i returned i ran into the same problem. So this time i knew there was a bigger issue and began to look for the leak. Thats when i found the large split at the top of the front panel. I immediately drained the tank down below the crack an inch or so. I thought that would solve the problem and would allow me time to contact the tank builder to find out how to remedy the situation. Well as time pasted i noticed there was still some small drips appearing and i began to follow the seam down and thats were i found the smaller split developing about midway down the seal. Once i got ahold of the builder he said that this was a bad situation and that i was lucky the front panel didn't detach. he began to say that it should have had a brace across the top of the tank, etc. etc. (i would think the guy designing the tank would have know this from the begging, especially since I didn't ask for rimless) This is less than a year from getting the tank and setting it up, and luckily under full replacement warranty. He gave me 2 options, replace it with glass that would take up to a month or so, or he had everything he needed to do it in acrylic and could be done in two weeks. So with a tank full of around 2 dozen fish and a few corals, i decided to go with the fast option to be the easiest on my stock. There was one good thing i thought i would get out of the new tank build, and that was to actually have the tank built the way i wanted it in the first place, with an external overflow, and he said it would be no problem. Well it must be a problem because again i didn't get an external overflow.
Well it took a little more than two weeks, and i should have know his promises didn't mean anything because the first tank was massively late. I picked up the tank just last weekend. As there is a big difference between two weeks and two months, i lost a majority of my fish stock and all my corals. Now I can take partial blame for that not being prepared to hose my stock, but i thought i had what i needed for a two week hold. Two weeks went, then three, then a month and up to that point i was fine, but after that the fish started to go, one here and one there and that added up. I kept telling the builder that trying to get him to speed up but it never seemed to phase him at all and i never seamed a priority to him, he was more worried about his service clients than me. He never once said sorry for anything. But i've ranted enough and sorry it got a bit long
The real reason i'm doing this post is i need the opinion of tank buildiers, or anyone with experience, about this new acrylic tank. The quality is just as bad as the quality of the glass tank i received. No polished or smoothed edges. In a few of the seams there are multiple air bubbles. Is this something i should be worried about? I would really hate to get back into with this builder and may just chalk it up as a loss if this isn't structurally sound.
Any input would be appreciated.
Needless to say the past few months have been a disaster. But here is possibly the start of the new tank.
to this
because of this
Back at the end of April, I came home from work to my Gyre sucking air into the tank because the water was a little lower than normal. My brain quickly decided to get water back into the tank to remedy the situation, just chalking it up to the auto top off not re-filling the tank and went on with some other chores around the house. I was out of the house for a few hours and when i returned i ran into the same problem. So this time i knew there was a bigger issue and began to look for the leak. Thats when i found the large split at the top of the front panel. I immediately drained the tank down below the crack an inch or so. I thought that would solve the problem and would allow me time to contact the tank builder to find out how to remedy the situation. Well as time pasted i noticed there was still some small drips appearing and i began to follow the seam down and thats were i found the smaller split developing about midway down the seal. Once i got ahold of the builder he said that this was a bad situation and that i was lucky the front panel didn't detach. he began to say that it should have had a brace across the top of the tank, etc. etc. (i would think the guy designing the tank would have know this from the begging, especially since I didn't ask for rimless) This is less than a year from getting the tank and setting it up, and luckily under full replacement warranty. He gave me 2 options, replace it with glass that would take up to a month or so, or he had everything he needed to do it in acrylic and could be done in two weeks. So with a tank full of around 2 dozen fish and a few corals, i decided to go with the fast option to be the easiest on my stock. There was one good thing i thought i would get out of the new tank build, and that was to actually have the tank built the way i wanted it in the first place, with an external overflow, and he said it would be no problem. Well it must be a problem because again i didn't get an external overflow.
Well it took a little more than two weeks, and i should have know his promises didn't mean anything because the first tank was massively late. I picked up the tank just last weekend. As there is a big difference between two weeks and two months, i lost a majority of my fish stock and all my corals. Now I can take partial blame for that not being prepared to hose my stock, but i thought i had what i needed for a two week hold. Two weeks went, then three, then a month and up to that point i was fine, but after that the fish started to go, one here and one there and that added up. I kept telling the builder that trying to get him to speed up but it never seemed to phase him at all and i never seamed a priority to him, he was more worried about his service clients than me. He never once said sorry for anything. But i've ranted enough and sorry it got a bit long
The real reason i'm doing this post is i need the opinion of tank buildiers, or anyone with experience, about this new acrylic tank. The quality is just as bad as the quality of the glass tank i received. No polished or smoothed edges. In a few of the seams there are multiple air bubbles. Is this something i should be worried about? I would really hate to get back into with this builder and may just chalk it up as a loss if this isn't structurally sound.
Any input would be appreciated.
Needless to say the past few months have been a disaster. But here is possibly the start of the new tank.
