need your help MR! james1990 1st upgrade 27cube

[E.intheC]

I get what your saying about it draining alot of water when I turn the pump off. to clarify, this is not the overflow, but the return pipe pushing water into the tank, so I dont think it needs to maintain a siphon like an overflow does?

i plan on drilling the tank with a glass holes kit.

Ah, I see that you posted it was a return now. You don't have to worry about it losing siphon in that case. I would raise it up though, and change out those metal clamps. They sell plastic ones as well. Those are the clamps you want.

 

[E.intheC]

he means the minute that pump goes off all the water in the main tank will siphon to the sump until it reaches the level of the pvc.. i think? right? lol

Yes. This is true as well. I actually thought it was the overflow at first though.

 

[james1990]

getting closer, sprayed the backround using gloss krylon and had the boys over at my LFS (aquarium village) drill the tank for the drain and return. Used the super nano kit from glass holes.com and used aquarium village for the return. went with a dual spray bar to break the water surface and direct more flow to SPS. Im super happy with it. now its a TRUE RIMLESS!

 

[james1990]

im also going bare bottom as I want to make this a dedicated SPS tank. Im moving in the next 6 months and plan on going with a 120. So my game plan is to keep this 30cube as a SPS only tank and keep mostly softies in the 120 and better fish diversity.

 

[james1990]

The tank cracked on me in the most dramatic way. Thank god it was empty. This is what I'm working with now, DeepBlue 30gal shallow 24X24X10X

 

[james1990]

When I move in the new few months this will make an awesome frag tank next to the big tank =P

 

[tomtoothdoc]

The tank cracked on me in the most dramatic way. Thank god it was empty.

that sucks....what happened? good thing it was still empty.

 

[james1990]

I was glueing the LAST PVC fitting which happened to be the fitting going into the bulkhead. Put too much pressure while pushing the fitting in and the whole back panel shattered. Lesson learned

 

[tomtoothdoc]

in a way it was a blessing in disguise..... if the glass shattered while glueing, that means it was too thin.
i have seen the back panel shattered when my buddy was working in the sump and bumped into the drain pipe....with full livestock in it..... wasn't pretty.