The oak shelf I built last weekend bowed 3 inches by Wednesday

Built a nice floating shelf out of solid oak for my wife's plants. Used what I thought were good brackets, 2x4s screwed into studs, the works. Looked perfect on Sunday. By Wednesday the front edge was dipping a full 3 inches in the middle. Turns out oak still moves and my little metal brackets were only rated for 20 pounds each. The shelf held up but it looks terrible now. I should have glued up a torsion box or at least used thicker stock with a steel angle underneath. Has anyone else had a big box store wood project sag on them that fast? What would you do different to fix it without tearing the whole thing down?

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ryan_hart3811h ago

... kinda wonder if the wall itself shifted from the weight, not just the brackets...