Ok, here's the deal. A few days ago I put a couple of pieces of driftwood into my already very full (water level higher than normal) tank. A couple hours later I noticed a small amount of water (easily soaked up by about 1/4 of a paper towel) running down the corner. I thought that maybe I had just gotten the water level so high that some ran over the top, perhaps in a gap between the very top of the glass and the silicone attaching the trim piece. However, the next morning there was another very small amount of water collected in the same place, between the top trim and the glass. I again wiped it up, but this happened 2 or 3 times throughout the day. I was leaving town the next day, and afraid of some catastrophic failure while I was gone, I moved all the fish to a rubbermaid container (thus the thread titled, My fish broke their house).
Now, I can't see anything visibly wrong in that corner, and the amount of water coming out is very small, and at a very slow rate. I really don't want to strip and reseal the entire tank, especially since I'll have to shower somewhere else until I can rehouse the fish, haha. So, does anyone have any input on what else I could do. I've thought about:
1. Just putting some extra silicone in that corner, up under the trim piece, to hopefully seal any small leaks that might be there. I know silicone doesn't stick well to cured silicone, but since it is so high up in the corner, and so small, and not at a stress point, I thought maybe that might work.
2. Filling the corner with epoxy such as is used to attach rocks to each other for reef tanks.
Again, I could reseal the whole tank, but don't really want to for something that I'm not even positive is a leak. The other issue with that is that normally when resealing a tank you leave the bottom and top trim pieces on, right? Well if the problem is up there that won't fix it anyway. Help?
Now, I can't see anything visibly wrong in that corner, and the amount of water coming out is very small, and at a very slow rate. I really don't want to strip and reseal the entire tank, especially since I'll have to shower somewhere else until I can rehouse the fish, haha. So, does anyone have any input on what else I could do. I've thought about:
1. Just putting some extra silicone in that corner, up under the trim piece, to hopefully seal any small leaks that might be there. I know silicone doesn't stick well to cured silicone, but since it is so high up in the corner, and so small, and not at a stress point, I thought maybe that might work.
2. Filling the corner with epoxy such as is used to attach rocks to each other for reef tanks.
Again, I could reseal the whole tank, but don't really want to for something that I'm not even positive is a leak. The other issue with that is that normally when resealing a tank you leave the bottom and top trim pieces on, right? Well if the problem is up there that won't fix it anyway. Help?