He answered me via pm. Said the overflow in stock form with roughly 400gph had the waterfall effect and required the used of coarse foam to silence it.
I really want the 32g ext tank dimensions with a modular marine or ems overflow minimum, or the built in style of the innovative Marine ext line.
Fiji quoted me a price for an undrilled 32 and it's a bit more for no overflow, a 10+ week lead time and no included shipping.
I understand custom tanks cost more due to the manufacturer being tooled up for the stock size lines and obviously different sizes need different glass cuts and glass sizes. But it's the extra shipping costs and the fact I'm simply asking for an undrilled version of a production tank that fiji that's costs more with less work in theory, along with others similar to them, continue to leave me looking.
How they are pricing semi custom work (essentially a mod to one of their production tanks) I am essentially paying prices for anano tank for the same cost of an traditional manufacturers much larger tanks in 4 and 6 foot lengths would cost a hobbyist, which is hard to swallow.
Sorry to derail and it's not necessarily a slight against Fiji. But they offer a custom options tab on their site but then the reality of their quote basically forces the average hobbyist into a stock tank. If the free shipping was still included then it would be a valid option since I'm sure the custom tanks are coming over on the same container ship as their normal stock shipments.
Again I'm not trying to derail, but im still sad deep blue aquariums were dropped as they carried some unique cube sizes that just aren't offered by others. They weren't the best quality but we're at a good price point that was a valid trade-off if you were on a budget and had a unique space for a nano.
I don't know why another manufacturer hasn't picked up the desire for a 20x20x16 and 24x24x16 tank sizes. Waterbox now has their 55 frag set-up but it's an internal overflow and a $1500 price tag since they don't sell tanks separately.
