Hello everyone, I am Jasen and live in Japan thanks to the US Navy. I have a small 8 gallon "reef" tank in my office I setup since I spend more time there than home for the most part. It's been going for about 18 months and since I just got extended for 3 more years, I figured it was time to "upgrade" to a more robust system that looked a little bit more put together (something that I would have in my home and would have done the last time I had a major tank setup). Getting away from the Eheim canister, HOB skimmer and such. Upgrading to a 15 gallon (huge!) with overflow and hopefully a Sapphire 26 sump. Just plopped a huge order for plumbing parts and an in sump skimmer from BRS. Interestingly, in the area I live there aren't many fish stores and online shopping here for new parts, fish, corals, etc. is far more difficult here than it was 13 years ago when I had my last tank setup in the states (Norfolk VA had a lot of shops with a lot of competition). Fortunately, US vendors ship USPS for the most part and the small shop here has some decent stuff albeit a gamble each time. I digress...
I picked up the one tank they had for sale that was about the size I wanted for the office that was drilled and I was fascinated with the way they do their overflow boxes in tank. I figured I would show it off to you so you too could get a kick out of it.
1x massive "bulk head" siliconed into place that accepts a single piece of 50mm PVC (~2"). Not shown in the pictures.
1x elbow with a 13mm (~1/2") coupler plastic welded into the center of it.
The idea is that the elbow is fitted to the pipe under the tank after its glued into place and the return pipe travels up the center of the drain and back to the display tank. It's a super interesting way to do it and saves on the number of holes in the bottom of the tank.
I picked up the one tank they had for sale that was about the size I wanted for the office that was drilled and I was fascinated with the way they do their overflow boxes in tank. I figured I would show it off to you so you too could get a kick out of it.
1x massive "bulk head" siliconed into place that accepts a single piece of 50mm PVC (~2"). Not shown in the pictures.
1x elbow with a 13mm (~1/2") coupler plastic welded into the center of it.
The idea is that the elbow is fitted to the pipe under the tank after its glued into place and the return pipe travels up the center of the drain and back to the display tank. It's a super interesting way to do it and saves on the number of holes in the bottom of the tank.
