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| DRILL IT YOU CHICKEN! |
   
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10 | 83.33% |
| RUN A HOB IT'S AWESOME! |
  
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2 | 16.67% |
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#1
11-17-2013, 11:54 PM
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I had a CPR HOB overflow with the airlifted.
Over the 10 years I've had my tank running, it has flooded my basement for various reasons - dead air lifter, the lines were plugged up, airline got brittle from the 14K MH……etc Like yourself I did not want to drill the tank simply because I thought the holes would compromise the integrity of the tank. in hind sight, should've bought a reef ready tank with holes pre-drilled! I just bought myself a custom 45g starphire glass cube. Guess what? Its drilled! No more nonsense with HOB's ! 
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11-18-2013, 12:43 AM
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Never EVER EVER will I do HOB again. Regardless if its Fresh/Salt water. What's the point.. and why bother with stupid HOB garbage.
Drill it, If your drilling the back I would go for an external overflow otherwise why not just drill the bottom makes no sense. If you drill the bottom go with a Herbie, by far the most fail proof silent overflow I have ever ran. (I've ran them all except bean animal which doesn't even make sense to me to begin with) If you're drilling 2 holes and drilling the bottom for internal overflow I would take the extra 3''-4'' and drill 3 for a return. It beats having to run the return over the back. If you're going to run the return over the back anyways.. WHY Not just go with an external overflow?
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11-21-2013, 05:45 AM
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OKAY! Drum roll PLEASE!
I've come to a decision.. With much mumbling and growling at my tape measure I came to the conclusion that my reef ready concept tank I was bitching about is only 5 INCHES longer and 4 INCHES taller. It's the damn canopy which is making it 10 inches taller. It is currently full of my husbands rainbow fish. Upsides! Drilled Sumped Plumbed T5'd I don't have to build a new stand. I don't need to put up with an 8 gallon sump or a glass shop. My husband is dancing like an idiot over the fact that he some how got the tank he'd been wanting. Bonus wife points. Downsides I have to buy 2 LED fixtures (Bfd when I am no longer talking drilling holes through my walls and having to have custom sumps/stands built) noisy durso plumbing It's full of rainbow fish. hight.
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