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BABYJIZAY
09-24-2011, 10:46 AM
Hi all. I have glass tops on my 125 gallon and of course a huge light on top. My tank has two braces, so I have three glass tops. I did a normal water change one day (last year) and left the light on while I did the maintenance as I have always done with all my tanks, but as the water level lowered a glass top cracked. Couple water changes later, the same thing happened to the 2nd glass top. However, it has never happened to the third top and its been a year. I want to finally replace the first two cracked ones, but am wondering why the cracks happened in the first place. I assume something about the heat from the light.. I dunno. I just don't want to invest in new tops and have it happen again. Any thoughts?

Keith Perkins
09-24-2011, 11:18 AM
I'm no light expert, but I bet they'll want to know what kind of fixture and lamps you've got. So they can figure out how much heat they're producing for one thing.