Acrylic tank repair wanted

[Casinova]

Anyone know of a person or company that can come pick up and repair an acrylic tank? My 100g AIO acrylic tank has sprung a leak on the back left side and back bottom... I tried to patch it up but failed, so looking for more professional help as I would like to use this tank in the future. Any info is kindly appreciated thnx reefers!!!

[Drama D]

You could try using weldon16 on all the seams inside and out, careful, it's thicker than weldon4 but still is thin enough to get everywhere if.not careful

[Casinova]

Awesome I'll look into that if no one else hits me for a professional job

[mdl92128]

Awesome I'll look into that if no one else hits me for a professional job

you may want to speak to John up in Anaheim
Advanced Acrylics
i’m sure he can fix
he also makes deliveries down here so i’m sure he could pick up


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[adreef]

Are you talking about a crack in the tank, or is it leaking at one (or more) of the seams?

[Casinova]

Leaking from the seams I believe

[Drama D]

I don't have to proper tools or I'd offer to help cut off the panel, re router the edges and rebound the panel. If it's just the seams, I think a good thorough cleaning and some weld on 16 maybe even add in some of those triangles for the corners would do the trick. Iyd be a good diy project for you. Probably take half a day

[adreef]

If you only have a couple of small seam issues, then like Drama D said, you can try and find some triangular acrylic rods (they have them at Ridout and their online store https://www.eplastics.com/ACRTRI-LARGE) and bond them in over the section of seam that is failing. Those rods are extruded acrylic, so they aren't perfectly flat, so you will definitely need Weld-On 16 as opposed to #3 or #4. However if more than one of the seams is failing, that could point to a wider issue with the tank. I had an acrylic tank a while back that started to have multiple spots where the seams were close to failure. I glued in a bunch of the triangle acrylic pieces and limped it along as a sump for a while, but eventually I felt that I just couldn't trust the tank anymore. I don't know if it was purely an age/stress thing, or if the tank just wasn't manufactured very well.
Good luck.

[Casinova]

Thnx guys for the info, but yea this is definitely beyond a DIY for me. I'm still trying to figure something out, I really don't want to get rid of the tank.