jayden kolonne
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I want to make a 5 ft tall plastic corner overflow, does anyone know how, or at least a smaller one?
How to make an overflow that looks good.
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Are you opposed to drilling glass? A external ghost overflow is small and visually unobtrusive
Is your tank 5 foot tall?
jayden kolonne
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A ghost overflow looks good, although I would need about 8 of them to do the job. The tank is going to be 5 ft tall. Im ok with drilling glass, although each piece of 2k so I want to do it right. I'll look into ghost overflows. Thanks
If your back glass is black and you get black overflow it’s nearly invisible
jayden kolonne
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Great, I'll paint the back black, but how do I do that? I'm assuming the outside side of the glass so there's no chemicals leaking.
Here you can barely see the outline of it and this photo was with flash on
Farther back
Rear view - can be plumbed for herbie or bean animal setups.
Farther back
Rear view - can be plumbed for herbie or bean animal setups.
I use black krylon on the outside rear panel and it’s held up 10+ years n my main reef
For this new build - I don’t know what was used, it was made/built this way.
Maybe you could order black glass for that rear panel? Or a dark smoke color tint
jayden kolonne
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Why not just black paint for glass? It's a 7ft by 5ft so 35sqr ft glass piece, that's like 8 dollars worth of paint.
Is this the same 7'x6'x5' tank you were talking about building in your other thread? Did you find someone to build a glass tank of this size? The panels would have to be over 1" thick for a tank of that size. That's some serious weight!
jayden kolonne
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Im building it. With help of 2 construction workers. @glasscages is supplying glass.
You absolutely could. I used black krylon spray paint. It said it works on glass. It was easy to do
jayden kolonne
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It's on the basement. I talked to my dad, he said the Fondation is right underneath the floor. He told me it would be best if I just put plywood and some mat to distribute the weight rather than a stand.
jayden kolonne
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Thanks for the help, never would have thought of those types of overflows.
Interesting, so the tank is going to sit directly on the floor? Is @Joe Glass Cages
supplying you the silicon and guiding you on how to bond the panels? There is going to be some serious pressure on the joints.
I just had an expensive meal. I am glad that I won’t have to eat here anymore. I really hope that this tank works out. The op is braver than I am!
Much braver to take on this kind of construction!
Much braver to take on this kind of construction!
1guydude
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Eh. Internal overflow for the win sry. My pinion. I'm currently going from a reef synergy to a custom internal overflow box so the plumbing can hook up directly to the display and not the little box. Why it's better or why I prefer it idk. I've also had a wier. Both glass on the display and acrylic box style with no teeth.
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We will NEED to see a build thread of the process!
jayden kolonne
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Got it.
jayden kolonne
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I think for this sized tank you need to go diy, i called several companies and they qouted me 70-100k. Filtration,pumps,lights, glass and sand is going to cost 25k, significantly less.
Have you researched the complexity of properly bonding glass panels of this size and weight? It's not really a DIY kind of project. One mistake could cause catastrophic failure and cause 10's of thousands in damage to your parents' house or worse a fire.
I'm not trying to talk you out of doing it, I'm just saying there's a reason your quotes are so high.
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