HELP!!! Wood cabinet stand bowing from humidity!

Pufferpunk

Pufferpunk

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Everything's wet up inside my cabinet, from all the humidity/rain we've been having. The doors are open & I put a large box fan in front of it all night & it's still all wet in there. I noticed one of the outer panels are bowed now. :( Hubby says the entire thing's gonna collapse, if I don't so something... Moving the tank is pretty much out of the question, as I have wall-to-wall rockwork & the corals have grown directly to the rocks.
 
Close windows, turn air on, get a dehumidifier.
If its on the verge of collapsing though, you have to break it down. Better than picking everything up from the floor from tank collapsing
 
you could probably get a loli column or some sort of jack to get it held temporarily, but I gotta agree that it sounds like you might have a busted seal. I have fixed a completely cracked and leaking tank with JBJ Water Weld if you can find and access the leak.
 
Use Vitamin C!! I couldn't resist. Sorry.

There's no way around it but you are going to have to empty it ASAP. Get a few of those sterilites from home depot or the dollar store and put live stock and water in there with pumps and heaters if it's too cold. Then get that tank stand built, borrowed or fixed. I wouldn't trust a water damaged stand though. If it happened once, it can happen again.

Good luck!
 
remove all the water .... and sand... anything else that has weight ... and get a few people to help you move it ... then quickly add water... I just moved my cube
 
No magical fix that I would trust supporting the weight of a 90g tank thats full.....

IMO make preparations to break it down and rebuild it, if the wood was that waterlogged it'll never be the same again IMO.
 
Can you build a temp stand out of 2x4s? And do the empty into temp container, disconnect sump/etc, slide, reconnect, refill as Aquaman suggested?
 
It's hard to know where this water is coming from. It's sooo humid in here right now. I had a dehumidifier running all winter but I guess took it down too early--when it hit the 80s I figured I didn't need it anymore. On a drier day, I'll wipe everything off & see if it's coming from the tank somewhere or just the humidity. Either way, the stand's gotta either be repaired or replaced.
 
Pufferpunk said:
It's hard to know where this water is coming from. It's sooo humid in here right now. I had a dehumidifier in here all winter but I guess took it down too early--when it hit the 80s I figured I didn't need it anymore. On a drier day, I'll wipe everything off & see if it's coming from the tank somewhere or just the humidity. Either way, the stand's gotta either be repaired or replaced.
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isn't that backwards Jeni? I think you need a humidifyer in the winder and a dehumidifyer in the summer (that's what my kids' pediatrician says anyway)
 
Laminate, particle board, plywood or solid wood stand? If anything but solid wood, it'll be hard to retain any structural integrity to the wood if it has already started to bow. When any of the others start to show water stress their integrity has been permanently compromised.
 
What type of surface is the tank sitting on? You could use a car jack to lift the side that's bowing and put in some 2x4's or couple pieces of plywood, or better yet real wood, but as for a long run fix not much can be done, maybe post a picture. I also agree that it has to be leaking or running down somewhere from some tubing even.
 
Hubby put an AC in the window today. I've had the box fan running into the open cabinet all day. I don't see anything leaking now.
 
Hmm, still sounds like that was an extreme excess amount of moisture to not be coming from some sort of leak. Hopefully the issue wont continue.
 
This room is surrounded by tanks. I removed the dehumidifier too early. It generally removed 2 gallons of water daily. I had the windows closed, because it was cool outside. There is a fan over the sump & the cabinet doors were closed.
 
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