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04-02-2008, 01:46 PM
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#11 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle area Age: 36
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Originally Posted by jcdillin  | Cool, that looks a lot like my sketch. Pretty cheap too. May buy that rather than having to sweat through a build. Thanks for the link. Karma.
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72g Bow Front, 2x250w MH (10 hrs), 4x65 Act (14 hrs), 6xDual Moonlights (10 hrs), 300 gph from cannister filter and powerhead, Prizm hang-on protein skimmer, 50 lbs LR, CC Bed
Yellow Tang, 2 Clowns, Bubble Tip Anemone, 2 Yellow Tail, Humbug, White Spot, Ornate Goby, Emerald Crab, Sally Lightfoot Crab, 2 Blue Legged Hermits, 15 Scarlet Hermits, +Snails with no names (margaritas, turbos, astraeas) | 
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04-02-2008, 01:50 PM
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#12 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle area Age: 36
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Thanks for the input everyone! I was thinking it would need to be bigger than that. :O) | |
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04-08-2008, 10:37 PM
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#13 (permalink)
| | Plankton
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Originally Posted by jcdillin |
I was looking at that overflow box. Can i have the measurements of it?? I emailed aquatraders 4 days ago and never got an answer back. | |
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04-08-2008, 11:19 PM
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#14 (permalink)
| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Jan 2008
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dont know you have done this or not should have seen it earlier, if you have a drill, you can drill ur tank, unless is temper than in that case i cant help you. there is a kit offer by glass-holes.com which is pretty good, come with a drill bit bulkhead and a overflow box, check them out require drilling ur box and tank though
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55g AGA 55lb LR, 55lb sand, CPR skimmer, magnum 350, koralia 1.
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120g RR, 40 sump/fuge, panworld 50pxx, 2 x 250 Lumen Bright Reeflux 12k coralvue ballst, 2x54 t5 current usa, 24 led moonlight, shallow sand bed, 2x Koralia 4, around 200lbs rock, msx 200, aquac phosphate reactor... If you see something better out there, let me know. most of the parts still being process. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:55 AM
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#15 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle area Age: 36
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I'm too nervous to drill my tank. I ordered an 800 gph OFB from foster and smith. Pretty cheap and worth not having to hassle with construction of a box or drilling. I'm eyeing a 180 for my next tank though. And I will get it pre installed.  | |
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04-09-2008, 05:07 AM
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#16 (permalink)
| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Miami, FL
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 yeah i've never had the guts to drill mine either. I really don't like the look of the full overflow going down the back of the tank either I think it takes up too much room inside. _________ Link to My 75 Reef Hardware 75G 20G DIY Refugium/Sump 2 250W MH, 4 65W PC Koralia 1 and Koralia 2 Powerheads for Currents Mag 9.5 for Sump/Fuge Return TLF Phosban Reactor Coralife Super Skimmer Software Domino Damsel Sixline Wrasse Coral Beauty Maroon Clown Reef Hogfish Cleaner Shrimp Camelback Shrimp Assorted Turbo Snails Red Legged and Blue Legged Hermits 3 Mexican Turbos Frogspawn Coral Foxtail Coral Pulsing Xenia Bubbletip Anemone | |
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04-09-2008, 05:18 AM
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#17 (permalink)
| | 3reef Sponsor
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Drilling a tank is as easy as drilling a block of wood I have sent a bit out to many here and several are first timers the thicker the glass the better and easier it is . If your tank is not set up yet then you'd be far better off just drilling it and putting an internal overflow . Why risk flooding the floor ? Takes about 5 or minuets or less to drill the average tank.. _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | 
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04-09-2008, 10:03 PM
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#18 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Apr 2008
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My dad said, I could make a overflow box out of a shoe box and fiberglass the inside and outside of the shoebox using resin and fiberglass mat from Home Depot or Lowes. Drill the bottom out for a bulkhead and place some gutter guard for the fish, snails, shrimp, crabs, cheato, algae, and fish food not to get into the sump. | |
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04-09-2008, 10:07 PM
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#19 (permalink)
| | Peppermint Shrimp
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Seattle area Age: 36
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Originally Posted by cornfacereef My dad said, I could make a overflow box out of a shoe box and fiberglass the inside and outside of the shoebox using resin and fiberglass mat from Home Depot or Lowes. Drill the bottom out for a bulkhead and place some gutter guard for the fish, snails, shrimp, crabs, cheato, algae, and fish food not to get into the sump. | Sounds like a logistical nightmare.
I'd rather mold it out of acrylic. Or just buy one prefab unit. They are pretty cheap. | |
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04-14-2008, 11:30 AM
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#20 (permalink)
| | Astrea Snail
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cleveland OH
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Originally Posted by jcdillin | I too was looking at this Overflow. It really does keep/hold the siphon if the power goes out? No complaints with this Overflow? Does the Bulkhead it comes with work trustworthy? Quote:
Originally Posted by Tangster Drilling a tank is as easy as drilling a block of wood I have sent a bit out to many here and several are first timers the thicker the glass the better and easier it is . If your tank is not set up yet then you'd be far better off just drilling it and putting an internal overflow . Why risk flooding the floor ? Takes about 5 or minuets or less to drill the average tank.. | Tangster, what about drilling a tank that is already setup? Is it doable? I have a 30g tall that is setup currently. Could i lower the water level and drill it? Im guessing there is too much risk involved in that? | |
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