my freebie tank is coming together need advice

[High Plains Reefer]

so I picked up a 180 oceanic for free replaced a end pannel now I need to do overflows what do you recommend drill the bottom or back or do an over the top?

 

[Smiley]

i say drill back, others will say drill bottom... everyone will say stay away from hob overflow...

 

[CRW Reef]

Re: my freebie tank is coming together need advice

+1 for drilling the back.

 

[cdrewferd]

my freebie tank is coming together need advice

Drill the back and do a full coast-to-coast. Best overflow type there is.


Drew

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[Cake_Boss]

Re: my freebie tank is coming together need advice

I'd drill bottom, but it's probably tempered, so drill the back close to the bottom

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[High Plains Reefer]

oh did I mention its going to be rimless most likely... I talked to oceanic today they said the trim on the ultimate line is decorative and this has the big glass center brace so from what I understand its an ultimate 178 with the starfire glass

 

[High Plains Reefer]

the scary part from what I understand it could be a tempered bottom there are reports of oceanic using whatever glass they had laying around if the were out of the non tempered which is what this should be

 

[Cake_Boss]

Re: my freebie tank is coming together need advice

Avoid drilling tempered glass, play it safe.

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[High Plains Reefer]

I was just looking at the beananimal c2c system it seems like its perfect the only problem is limited acess to the back of the tank

 

[CRW Reef]

Re: my freebie tank is coming together need advice

Maybe try this
No idea if it works just found it.

http://www.salt-city.org/showthread.php?9542-How-to-tell-if-glass-is-tempered

 

[Cake_Boss]

Re: my freebie tank is coming together need advice

Go with the bean animal, easy to use and super quiet

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[High Plains Reefer]

great now my phone is dead forgot tank was full

JK

 

[High Plains Reefer]

not sure how reliable this is I know car windows are tempered and I read laptops through them all the time but at any rate I think I'm going with the beananimal style

 

[High Plains Reefer]

I did try it though dosent appear to be tempered