Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

External Beananimal-style overflow. Make it as coast to coast as possible. Dead silent and bloody awesome. Get the glass company (or whoever is building your tank **cough** CONCEPT AQUATICS **cough**) to cut a long notch across the back glass and build the overflow off the back. You can build external glass boxes for wave boxes (Riceboy, didn't Brad do that on your tank?).

I can post pics of my overflow design that did back in the fall if you're interested.