280 gallon acrylic peninsula reef build

Well I'm still a bit bummed that I got stuck with this junker tank due to my inexperience with buying used acrylic tanks but I did learn something and am now headed even closer to my dream tank.

I just today quoted out a 60X30X26 tank from Lee Mar. It is a starphire front, 1/2" thickness, black back tank. It has dual corner overflows with two 1.5" bulkheads in each overflow so I can do a BeAnAnimal. I need to read up on doing that style as I am not sure how one does a dual corner overflow to accomplish that. Would you guys suggest a coast to coast? I requested no return holes and plan to come over the top as this would be inside my laundry/fish room.

Here is the wall where it would be placed. My wife says to tell you all to ignore her, she isn't moving! Lol
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There will likely be a good deal of construction before I am ready to purchase whichever tank I get. I don't work as fast as I'd like being a Master's student, full time programmer, and owning a new house with its own opinion on what I should be working on. But never the less, I still find an hour a day to lurk the forums and get caught up on what seems like a world of changes since 2007 when I last kept a salty box. Off to lurk on BeAnAnimal overflows and relocating a secondary electrical panel to see if I can get lather than 60" on this puppy like I'd like to!
 
Well after re-reading the BeanAnimal explanation I see I fumbled that so I'll start thinking about the best way to implement a Calfo overflow. I don't want to give up internal space to the overflow all the way across so perhaps I will see if Lee Mar can do an external Calfo. What do you guys think?
 
The external Cali style would be the best choice IMO. My new dsa 220 will be using a center overflow using the beananimal drain since I did not have the extra room to come out from the wall.
 
I've yet to see an example of a coast to coast external after a bit of searching last night. Can anyone show an example please?
 
Bump. Must not be a lot of them. I've had a hard time still. Found one on youtube. Maybe the problem is everyone calls these something different! California=Cali=Calfo=Coast to Coast=C2C :headwally::rollface:
 
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