Starting over, questions abound!

[jeffopentax]

Sold all my fish, looking to implement bean animal before starting again.  Has anyone drilled 3/8"-5/8" (forgot to measure before i left for work) glass before?  Hoping someone has successfully,  and would be willing to try mine.  Zero liability of course!

 

[TORX]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

I did 1/2" on my current 120g. You can see the pics in my signature, but in case you are using Tapatalk, here is a pic from the thread and a link. Not able to swing by, but it is easy to do. Just slow, steady and lots of water.

 

[pulpfiction1]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

Yes let  the drill do all the work I have drilled up to three quarters of an inch thick I found thinner glass required more caution

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[pulpfiction1]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

Cool pic torx

lol

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[TORX]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

Thanks

Pulp coached me through the first time I drilled a tank.

 

[jeffopentax]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

Feel a little better about giving it a go.  Worst case scenario is i crack it, then have no choice but to go buy a bigger tank!   Since i'll need to drill 3 holes, should i spread them out as far as possible?

 

[pulpfiction1]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

I guess it all depends on how well the first one goes
I would say at least a few inches apart

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[jeffopentax]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

Found this while shopping for diamond bit.  Thought it might be helpful for anyone considering drilling their tank.
http://youtu.be/rzpOtssB9mA

 

[dale]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

i just successfully drilled 4 1.75" holes in 1\4" glass with no info or instruction, just go slow (i used high speed on the drill) and use common sense (and water), you can feel and hear what its doing...

 

[pulpfiction1]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

so you are going bean animal,just through the back glass?or you gonna build an overflow?

 

[jeffopentax]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

My starting point is this, but of course open to suggestions...

 

[Pistol]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

I did an internal weir with an external box, works good but I wish I had made the weir so it was only about an inch in the tank, it causes a lot of shadow.

 

[pulpfiction1]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

most of what I learned about the bean animal I learn from this site

http://www.beananimal.com/



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[jeffopentax]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

Good to see some people on here using bean animal, as i'm sure i'll have more questions once i get underway.  Is it truly silent and "set and forget"?  Only want to do this once.  Gotta keep the wife happy, and my sanity intact!

 

[Pistol]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

it is silent, you need a gate valve to be able to dial it in properly, I've had to tweak mine a couple times in a year so I would say yes, set and forget.

 

[jeffopentax]

Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

I was going to use a 75g tank a friend gave me as my sump.  To do so would require major modifications to my stand.  Doable, but i'd rather not.  A 55g would require far less rebuilding.  Anyone wanna trade a 55g for a 75g?  Definitely not suitable for dt.

 

[Neopimp]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

those extensions off the top.  keep them as short as possible especially if you are doing a basement setup or have long horizontals.  they will trap air and vapor lock the line causing your start to over flow on start up.  I had to put an air line tube off of all three of my drains to give air a place to escape out of the tube.  I also have a 10 ft drp and a 35 ft horizontal run.

I also do not use 90s on my siphon bulk head, again it starts faster with the basement and horizontal run.  I also have 1inch pipe which if I had gone with 1.25 or 1.5 I do not think I would have had any of these issues.

 

[jeffopentax]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

I will definitely incorporate all of those tips!  Thanks in advance!  

 

[Sewerat]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

55 you say. Hmmmmm

 

[jeffopentax]

Re: Starting over, anybody drilled a 135g?

55 you say. Hmmmmm

Isn't your 55 currently occupied? Haha