Drilling new tank

glagunda · Nov 29, 2016

Researched for days and im fairly certain that it is safe to drill the back of the 120 marineland topfin aquarium. Does anyone have the same exact tank that is drilled? Only the bottom panel is tempered?

helen ann · Dec 1, 2016

Hi ...

This post will give your thread a lil' bump and hopefully with some experience will chime.

Curtis Vogan · Dec 1, 2016

Easiest way to tell, take an LCD screen and shine a white background through the glass (use google.com) then look at it with polarized glasses. If it's tempered you will see color streams through out it at an ange. If I'm not mistaken all four sides are okay to drill but the bottom glass is tempered and will shatter if drilled. I personally have drilled all aqueon and Marineland size tanks from 20-75 gallons( about 80 tanks) on the sides for my store and not a single one broke. Not 100% sure on top fin tanks.

glagunda · Dec 13, 2016

Thanks for the reply. Greatly appreciated

Curtis Vogan · Dec 14, 2016

Also if it is tempered there should be a label or sticker on the bottom glass in orange if it's tempered. It will say "Do NOT drill, tempered glass." Aqueon 40 gallon breeders say "to avoid serious injury do not drill" but it's not tempered. It's just their warning label.

glagunda · Dec 15, 2016

Thanks for the input

miyags · Dec 15, 2016

Is that the brand of tank on sale at petsmart? I was looking at the 120 also, but they aren't reef ready

glagunda · Dec 15, 2016

@miyags yea Black Friday special for 300.

glagunda · Dec 15, 2016

Gonna start on it next year. Going to drill the back panel

miyags · Dec 17, 2016

dang,missed that sale, back up to 4 something at 20% off. It comes with a stand but you can't use a sump with it. The stand comes with shelves. And you have to buy the whole set-up.

glagunda · Dec 18, 2016

@miyags yea been trying to sell the stand now for the last 3 weeks. No takers. It's a point of sale made of pressed board. Going to be building a stand for it

miyags · Dec 19, 2016

I'm looking at the Eshopps Eclipse overflow box kit large, to use. What type of overflow do you have plans to use?

glagunda · Dec 19, 2016

@miyags I was going to do a ghost overflow or something similar but I'm too cheap. Going for the diy just a simple pvc surface skimmer overflow. Here's what i have on my 75.

Year later. You can barely see it. Clean install. Works perfectly fine

Tokash23 · Dec 30, 2016

any chance i could see more pictures of that setup. what did you do for the surface skimmer? Im looking for something clean and simple to do with my 40g breeder.