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The current overflow box looks like it is held together with silicone. Am I wrong (hopefully)?

Glassholes.com sells overflows you can affix to the upper right and left corners of your tank for drains, and you can run plumbing up the back wall to push water back into the aquarium. The back panel needs to be covered with limo-tint vinyl or painted black so you don't see all the plumbing.

If you go that route, all you have to do is glue a thick piece of glass over those holes in the bottom of the tank. A large piece of glass with plenty of siicone, hidden under the sandbed. You'd have to drill the aquarium for the overflows on the back wall, and glassholes sells the drill bit too.

+1 on the glass holes overflow, they are very quiet and take up little space i have one on my 40g breeder and for future tank builds in going to use nothing but glass holes overflows. hell they even give you candy to eat

You are right it is going against the wall. So far this is what I have planned out in my head (it always sounds/looks great in my head lol) keep that overflow as drains only. Build 2 rock structures in the tank one to cover that overflow the other with caves and overhangs have open area in between the rock structures for fish to swim and some how build like bridge of rocks connecting the structures diagonally. The return plumbing one or two sqwids (still debating that in my head one for sure). It will be run up and over the back I want 4 returns 8 loclines. I have a super dart gold pump so it's strong enough to handle the 4 returns. I looking at possibly buying eductors for the loclines. Please feel free to add your 2 cents I love to hear any comments to prevent any bone head moves. Like you said once its up and running its not easy to adjust

that looks like the 112 gallon tank i have, you can polish scratches that are small enough you cant hook your fingernail in them with cerium oxide and a felt or lambs wool polishing wheel on a electric buffer. i just finished doing it to my 112g oceanic tank. its very messy and takes a lot of time but it does work

Neenah, I could be wrong, but I thought you were planning on sticking the tank lengthwise up against the wall. That said i can only imagine that the island overflow will limit flow and aquascaping of the tank. Anything can be changed now with the tank empty, but once full, if you decide you don't like it, it will be an ordeal to change. i'm not trying to tell you how to set up your tank, I just want to give my two cents on the possible pitfalls of that setup. As I said that setup is intended for and island or peninsula style tank

Midnight tell me more as to why not just use the existing over flow as a drain only? I like to explore ideas

Since you are not setting up a peninsula tank, I would plug the existing holes, remove the overflow, and install glass holes overflows in the rear of the tank. Just my .02$

You've been working on this too long for a setback like this. Total BS. I'm sure the guys installing the flooring don't want to have to cough up the money to replace the tank because it's probably every dollar of the profit off that job. But if they carry insurance, this should be a claim. I think you should actually push for the claim, now that I'm thinking about it. You didn't do anything wrong, and they damaged your property.

I'm devastated :/ my hubby does not love the hobby the way I do, however he hates to see me sad. He's been looking online everywhere to find me my unicorn tank even if it's 2 hours away. He spotted a 7 x 2 x 2 oceanic with starfire glass. Fingers crossed... I hope it's as good as it sounds.

i would defenatly be talking to the owner of the company that is doing the work on your house. that is defenatly not a stress crack

It was the handle of a tool, like a broom for example. Installing floors involves prybars to push the boards together. I bet it fell over against your tank, or something similar. OMG, I feel so badly for you right now. I wonder if your home owners insurance might cover it, although the deductible is usually significant. FRACK!!

I agree it's definitely an impact and the workers are insured but none of them (3 workers) want to fess up to it. They all claim they didn't see anything and have no idea how it happened. My twelve yr old says she didn't hear or see it happen (she was in the other side of house) my husband was mowing the lawn and the baby was sleeping. So how do I pin it on them? I talked to the owner of the company he questioned all his workers but he got the same response. He said he couldn't take fault for something maybe my kid could have done. I'm really upset and I'm hoping I can find a way to repair this by removing the panel and putting a new one on. Maybe the fish tank gods can help me find a cheap replacement on Craig's list - a 7 foot long tank is not easy to come by for sale used... it's like a unicorn tank... Lol

That is really horrible. I would have to agree that this was a pretty hard impact from something. A stress crack would likely be one or two cracks going across the panel. This is a radial impact effect from something smacking it. My guess is that the workers are not insured? If they are the only ones doing stuff in the house it had to be them.

Yeah I would push it on them to make it right.

Holy Crap! I'd be super pissed. Don't Believe the BS. Thats what broken glass looks like when something hard hits it dead center. Think of a rock hitting a car windshield. Bang *

Stress crack?! BS, that's an impact hole, something really hard hit it.

Wow...sorry to see that. A broken panel can be cut out an replaced, but at what cost?. Hope you can find someone in your area to repair the tank of find cheap replacement.

Originally Posted by NeenahFoxxe

So far I really like those Phoenix lights... Hmm I hope they are as easy to DIY as they claim

They are pretty easy. The hardest part for me was deciding how to layout the LED's on the heat sink.

So far I really like those Phoenix lights... Hmm I hope they are as easy to DIY as they claim

If you want to DIY LED but you arent sure if you are up for the whole big heatsink multiple strings of lots of little LEDs I'd suggest doing multichips like i did they are easier because you need fewer large LEDs. Although you can have more spotlighting/shadows so you need to plan well.