This tank has a wooden bottom, I thought it would be fine but I woke up at 3:30 last night to a puddle on the ground around it, and upon closer inspection the entire bottom is soft and moldy. I sealed this tank with three layers of liquid rubber, apparently that wasn't enough though. It's been growing in for 3 weeks, and isopods/springtails have been breeding for 2 of those three.
I will have to totally gut the tank to repair it, remove all foam and glass to get the bottom out, etc. totally crushed. So many of the plants are glued in place, too, so I'll probably lose some in the process.
by Dangerous-Road-5382
5 Comments
might not be the prettiest idea but you could also try to seal it from the outside, put silicon over all the cracks and if that looks to bad, cover it with some foil or black tape so it looks like a plastic bottom
Omg no. Please, during your exploration report back to us here.If you can tell where it leaked out!
Seal it AND line it. Water has an amazing ability to find a way.
I sealed the bottom of a cabinet I converted but also used a shower liner cut to size to help.
No way to just glue a glass bottom on and let the wood decompose as lowest substrate layer?
….wooden bottom? Is this from the 1920 or what I’ve never heard of such a thing