Plumbing, A few new Questions

[spoot]

Awsome, my gf really wants a porc, but we don't have the tank space at the moment.

Good to see another pufferholic in vancouver! do you think we can come visit sometime?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Yeah! As soon as I have the new tank up your welcome to come by. I will let you know. How many puffers do you have? You mentioned the Celyons...any others? Where did you get yours? I have not seen very many Ceylons around Vancouver before.

[spoot]

Sweet!
Only got 2 ceylons atm. In the future, will be getting a porc and a C. schoepfii (spiney burrfish). We actually got the from her lab proffessor at SFU. They were going to be used for some experiments I think. I really regret not saving more of them. The rest of them died cuz no one was taking care of them. There were about 10 total.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Thats cool that you saved the Celyons!

Anyways, back to plumbing...

How hard is it to drill glass tanks? I think I might want to just take advantage of the spare tanks I have and use them as sump/refugium. I have seen people "drill" them using a dremmel (sp.), has anyone here done this? I would be drilling relatively thin glass (1/4" I think) which actually makes me more nervous. Seems like drilling thicker glass would be easier.

[spoot]

LOL, sorry about the highjack!

There are lots of posts on RC about people drilling their own tanks. I think more people drill with bits rather than use dremmel. I think if you don't apply much pressure and let the drill bit do it's thing, you should be fine. Never done it though, but will when my GF lets me drill our tanks...

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Yeah, Im thinking I will have to go get a drill bit. Im really scared to drill a tank though. Only good thing is, these tanks are old and scratched, so if I screw up, its not so bad.

I will check RC for threads on drilling tanks.

[spoot]

If it's not too much to lose, it's totally worth the attempt to do it yourself!