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 Posted: May 23 2012 at 9:16pm |
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Ok. So I did some research and found out about glassholes.com that sells the overflow kits. But I don't want to spend like $50-$60 on a kit. I had some black plastic laying around and aquarium safe silicone so I decided to just make my own overflow box for free :) so I got on glassholes website and found the dimensions for their 300 gph overflow box and make one the same size and shape. Right not the silicone is drying. I am taking my tank up to ReefOn tomorrow evening to get a hole drilled and then I will get the box attached in the tank.
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Posted: May 23 2012 at 9:19pm |
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Would I need one that goes all the way from the bottom of the tank to the top or could I just drill the hole at the top and just make a small box for it that's like 4 inches square? Like this..
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Ours is like that.... with two holes.
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180 Gallon, 75 gallon, 30 gallon, 5 gallon. On a side note: I have just now decided that "Gallon" is a funny looking word.
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 9:11am |
Yes, that would work fine, but personally I would use a herbie type overflow. Practically silent, safe, and can move a ton of water if you need to. In all, it would require 4 holes; 3 overflow and 1 return. I would probably use 3/4" plumbing for all of it, or 1" on the overflows and 3/4" on the return.
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 5:25pm |
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I'm thinking about getting a Koralia Evolution 750 instead of using my Maxijet 900. Partly because the Maxijet is loud, and also it is just suction cup mounted. I don't trust suction cups..haha. Plus the Koralia looks better, and I really like my Koralia nano. Thoughts?
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 5:41pm |
Ann_A wrote:
Yes, that would work fine, but personally I would use a herbie type overflow. Practically silent, safe, and can move a ton of water if you need to. In all, it would require 4 holes; 3 overflow and 1 return. I would probably use 3/4" plumbing for all of it, or 1" on the overflows and 3/4" on the return.
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On the outside of the tank??
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180 Gallon, 75 gallon, 30 gallon, 5 gallon. On a side note: I have just now decided that "Gallon" is a funny looking word.
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Posted: May 24 2012 at 5:44pm |
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Would there be too much flow between the Rio 1100 (only like 295 gph with the head height), the Koralia Nano (240 gph) and a Koralia Evolution 750 (750 gph)? That is like 1295 gph in a 20 gal.
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Posted: May 26 2012 at 1:58pm |
Ok so I ordered a bunch of stuff from Dr. Foster and Smith yesterday: Hydor Koralia Evolution 550 5' of 1 inch ID black flexible tubing 5' of 3/4 inch ID black flexible tubing plastic hose clamps ball valve for return line Total it only cost me like $55 and I got free shipping. I'm excited for those things to get here. Also, I got my tank drilled from ReefOn. I also got a 1 inch slip/slip bulkhead. I glued some PVC pipe inside of it, put a 90 degree elbow, and then some more PVC so I can slip my tubing over it. Here is a pic. 
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Posted: May 26 2012 at 1:59pm |
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I'm going to post a pic once I get my overflow box installed.
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Posted: May 27 2012 at 9:07am |
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Soo.. yesterday I broke my overflow box. Grr. Haha. So im trying a different idea. I am going to take some 4 inch PVC pipe I have in the garage and cut it so it is the same height as my tank. Then I am going to cut it in half so I have a half circle. Then I am going to cut teeth on the top and paint it black. Then I will just silicone it into the tank. Like one of those vertical overflow boxes. It isn't going to take up too much room so it will work great.
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Posted: May 30 2012 at 5:32pm |
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Ok so my stuff is supposed to be here on the 1st whatever day that is haha. I am finishing the stand on Saturday. Im also helping my grandparents mve their tank onto their new stand so that is going to be a mess.. haha.
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Posted: June 01 2012 at 3:25pm |
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So all my stuff got here today. Here's what I got:
Hydor Koralia Evolution 550
3/4" flexible tubing
1" flexible tubing
3/4" hose clamps
1" hose clamps
3/4" ball valve (so I can tune the return pump if needed)
I got all my plumbing put together so that is out of the way. All I am waiting on now is just for my stand to be finished (I'm doing it tomorrow!!) and I need to get like 25 gallons of RO water from the aquarium and mix up enough saltwater. I'm getting really excited. I will probably do the transfer on Tuesday if I have time, because I won't be able to get the water until Monday, then it takes 24 hours before I can use the saltwater after I mix it.
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Posted: June 01 2012 at 4:02pm |
This will turn out great.
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Posted: June 01 2012 at 4:04pm |
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I hope so! :)
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Posted: June 01 2012 at 4:17pm |
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I am also planning to make my overflow box while I am building the stand tomorrow. I am hoping it won't be too big of a pain.
Also, I want to try to make this tank as quiet as possible, so if I put an elbow in the drain bulkhead facing down so no air will get in to the pipe, will it quiet it down? I am thinking it is going to cause it to siphon which can be a problem if your sump can't handle the water that will continue draining until the siphon breaks. But, I did the math and the sump should be able to handle the extra water. Are there better ways to quiet down the overflow? I don't really have room for something like a durso or stockman or hofer or those kinds of things. Will it be quiet enough if I don't put anything special on the hole? Suggestions would be great. My hole is on the back of the tank like 1 1/2" down from the top so I'm pretty limited with what I can do.
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Posted: June 03 2012 at 9:10am |
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I built my overflow box yesterday and siliconed it into the tank. It looks awesome! I will post pics soon.
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Posted: June 03 2012 at 11:10am |
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I built my overflow box yesterday and siliconed it into the tank. It looks awesome! I will post pics soon. |
It's going to be a sweet tank!
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Posted: June 05 2012 at 7:50am |
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We finished up my stand and got it to my house. Im really impressed with how it looks. I am going to the aquarium to get some RO water and then I will get the tank running with all new water and mix the salt in there because I dont want to buy a huge barrel. Then once im ready I will just take some of the water out so there is room for rock and water from the old tank and do the transition.
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Posted: June 06 2012 at 10:49am |
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So...everything went well until I tried to add the sand. I got all the water in, mixed up, and everything running, and decided to put the sand in. I have the Caribsea Ocean Direct Live sand just in case anyone was wondering. So I put the sand in and...instant whiteout, and tons of thick foam at the surface of the water. Crap. The bag said DO NOT RINSE on it so I didn't. Well I think that was a mistake. So I turned everything off and let it all settle overnight. Then tried siphoning the fine stuff that had settled and I ended up stirring everything up again. So I took all the sand out and put it in a bucket and I am going to pick up some larger grain sand to mix with it and then I am going to rinse the heck out of it. I am waiting for the stuff to settle in the tank and I will siphon it out. But I might end up having to just get all new water and start over..which I hate. But oh well. I have a bunch going on the rest of this week so I probably won't get to do much more with the tank until next week.
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Posted: June 06 2012 at 12:37pm |
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You should have just left the sand with your filtration to take care of it. It would settle in a few days. You don't want to rinse it as that will defeat the purpose of it being live sand.
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Posted: June 06 2012 at 12:40pm |
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Yeah i know it will get all the live stuff out but I dobt really carr about that i just want it to not be a dust storm.
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