Broken Center Brace

It is a pretty serious problem. The glass will eventually buckle and the seam will fail.

Too remidy this you can try a couple of different techniques. The easiest would be to buy a bar clamp and clamp it temporarily, then apply a two part epoxy to the cross brace. Give it about 48 hours to bond.

Other ideas would be to contact the manufacturer (www.all-glass.com most likely) and have them send you a replacement top brace. You would likely need to drain out half of the water to do it, but it will be extremely secure when you finish.

I have tried using all sorts of other glues and bonding agents such as weld-on without success.

Your final option would be to replace the tank. As you said yourself, the fish are priceless. I wouldnt have too much of a problem spending $100 to gurantee they are in a solid tank. Maybe now is the time to upgrade to a larger tank also.

HTH

center brace

i have 2 55 gallons neither of them came with center braces, 1 new one 1 old one i haven't had problems with either and the ones been running for over 2 years

Ive heard of them going over a year with no problems. Then one day, boom, and you have 55 gallons of water and some dead fish on the floor...

ThirdEyE- Be careful of the fact that some 55 gallon tanks use thicker glass and do not need a center brace. If the tank did have one it is quite important structurally.

I just replaced the whole top piece on my 55 gallon tank last Saturday. I contacted All-Glass and they sent me the whole top piece, for $8.10 shipped! It wasn't that big of a deal, taking the old top off was the hardest part. Then just silicone the new piece down and let it sit over night.

JEFF

They sent mine free also came with a tube of silicon
Now will they be so nice this week when I order 2-55 rims and 2-30L rims.
BTW any one know if the top and bottom are the same peice I'm sure they are but I've been wrong before

Yes both the top and bottom are the same.