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Brent's 90 gallon corner overflow build! (1 Viewer)

No they bushed the pipe supplied from 1" to 1.5 ImageUploadedByTapatalk1416786930.613679.jpg


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I do have a Gfo and carbon reactor that will be run off the mag 12 and could always divert a bit of water back to the sump if needed I just plan on the mag 12 since I had it laying around


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If you do a durso like above the inside pipe does need to be at least .25" wider then the bulkhead so it slows it down for air/water mix to reduce gurgle. So you can go as small as 1.25" but not 1" if you stick with the durso style as shown above. Herbie you don't need any pipe for the main drain, just a bulkhead strainer and a gate valve for fine tuning under the tank. Emergency drain can be 1" all around. You will need to have a arcylic cover over the overflow becuase with all that piping no way your going to get your hand in there to try to save a fish.
 
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Which would you suggest I think after some research I decided to just go over the back on the return.


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Once you go herbie you will never go back IME. So I'd do the herbie becuase there is zero air so perfectly silent and no saltwater creep etc. in the sump from all the air and don't need all those baffles and wasted space trying to eliminate bubbles.

Durso transfers the noise from the top down to the sump and can still be a challenge to keep quiet. If you do a herbie, the emergency pipe needs to be way high up, just even with the bottom of the overflow teeth. You want the water level in the overflow to be a high as possible to you don't get any waterfall noises. Doing so, you will have a completely silent drain/overflow setup. Only way to go IMO.

Downside to the herbie is you need a nice quality gate valve ( not a ball valve ) so expect to spend another $20 on parts. If this tank is in living room or bedroom though it's well worth the cost.
 
Thank you so much for all your help! I really apreciate it, I think I'm gonna go with the herbie as that is what I was thinking for the two 1" drains already but you definately convinced me and then I'll just pipe my return over the top, would you go opposite the overflow or still bring it out in the overflow box?




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I personally went in the middle. If you went on side of overflow then you may have to use quite a bit of that locline to direct it away from the overflow and to me that looks just as ugly. I'd rather just have a T in the back center at the top of the waterline. You can paint it to match the background ( as long as you use Krylon brand, all others will cause issue with inverts - been there done that ).


Oh and the emergency drain, be sure to just use slip fitting and don't glue the pipe in or use threads so that it can be removed. In case you do need to get in there to reach stuff you want to be able to remove it. Bulkhead strainer will need to be removed and cleaned every 3-6 months so if you can't stick your had down that far then you can use piping to increase the height, herbie though works best the lower the pipe is in the overflow. Just do whatever will make easiest for maintenance.
 
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Got the back painted and stand drilled for my return line ImageUploadedByTapatalk1416877006.331848.jpg decided to go in the middle thanks to David's advice. I drilled the hole in order to be able to fit 1.5" pipe but think that I will most likely go with 1.25 to cut down the gph a little bit


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ImageUploadedByTapatalk1417056358.129901.jpgsuper pumped about this!


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Well I did some fooling around with rocks today and I like it for the most part, the island on the right leaves something to be desired and I plan on putting some tonga branch in there as well as a bridge from the two islands the rock in the center is going to be my zoa garden ImageUploadedByTapatalk1417235584.304098.jpg

Also picked up one of my radions from new wave today the next one will be picked up next week when I get back from working out in minot hopefully we will be well into the cycle by then and I can start transferring

What are everyone's thoughts on the bare bottom tank? I decided to test it out for a bit since I can always add sand in the future and its a lot easier than pulling it out! I'm not sure how I feel about it so far as just putting the rock I had in the tank left small piles of sand that get blown around the bottom by the gyre


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Sand and detritus should settle and pile in a particular spot, unless the gyre is that effective. If it piles, you can siphon it out very easily. That is supposed to be one of the benefits of going bare bottom. I am giving it a try in my new "reef" tank. Also, if corals fall, they don't die as quickly as they would in sand.

In my "fish" tank I am going to keep sand.
 
Yea I turned the gyre down to 40 and it all piled up I had it cranking on 100% since there was nothing in the tank I wanted to break it in and get past the noisy phase .

Other than all of the light going right through the bottom of my tank I really like the bare bottom


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Paint the bottom... I bought a piece of gray PVC to lay on mine to keep the rocks off the glass. Either way, you can stop the light.
 
Do you have a picture of yours by chance? I like the idea of keeping the rock off the bottom glass and dispersing the weight a bit so I don't stress the bottom, was it pretty easy to cut around the overflow?


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I did barebottom for many years. I probably would still do it that way becuase you have a visual of all the crap that builds up. Downside is that overtime IF you let coraline algae grow on the bottom is that it will catch alot of the detritus and you won't get the "settling in the corner" effect anymore and will have to siphon the whole bottom just like as if you had a think layer of substrate. So you need to keep the bottom scraped well for this to be less work than just siphoning a substrate. Been there done that. Since I had to siphon the whole bottom anyways I now just use substrate as it is more aethetically pleasing.
 
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Wow great build I always love reading through a build and seeing the progression, plastics international is where you got it from I might give them a call and see how much a piece will run me, do you recall if they have more than the gray color?


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Thanks David, is it pretty hard to scrape the bottom
Of the tank? How often did you end up having to do it in order to keep the coralline algae at bay?


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