Drilled or External Overflow?

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Lucky you for sure.

But for a new guy starting out, clean slate, given these 2 options -- the odds are heavily against you for suggesting an external overflow.

It's pretty much impossible for a drilled overflow to fail. It's purely run on gravity. An external overfly needs to defy gravity to get a syphon going. It's really a no brainer.

You're lucky yours restarts everytime, but the chance is still there that one day it wont.

Plus drilling is cheaper than spending $100-200 on an external overflow.

Originally Posted by gobytron

LOL...
My friend, I live in no such fear.
You must have one of those CPR units...lol

Go with a Life Reef or similar.

Again, 6 years, no breaks in siphon, no floods and probably 100 power outages .