Well, we plugged it in last night and the OTHER tub was leaking, so we decided to scrap the tubs for a couple reasons. First, the boring bit we used mangled three out of four holes, mainly because I was unknowingly running the drill to fast, so it was far from a perfect circle and we just tried to fill the gaps in with the silicone. Second, we spray painted the tubs black before using the silicone, so when then silicone moved, the spray paint stuck to the silicone and the silicone ripped the paint off the tub, rendering the seal worthless. We also didn't want to to chance a leak several weeks down the road when it would be a lot harder to handle the tubs as opposed to when they were empty.

This time, we took our time and cut out perfectly sized holes and also applied silicone to the threads of the spouts and screwed it in. We then applied the silicone and are going to let it dry until tomorrow before painting. Hopefully, things will end up better this time around.

I haven't even started growing anything yet and I'm already learning valuable lessons! :thumbsup: