Drilled overflow for a Nanocube

[misery]

Is this possible? I'd love to drill an overflow in the back of the thing- Doing it on the verticle side of the back, and have a 90 degree elbow pointing up with a strainer for the overflow- Then I could throw my euroreef and skim the crap out of it. Planning on going coverless, with a halide setup over it- So I've got room to play with for overflow.

What do you guys think? I'm not too up on what the backs of these look like, but I think it's something worth exploring..

 

[Newreeflady]

I think some people have been able to fit skimmers, at least in the 24g cube. Don't know what size you're looking at. As far as the 6g & 12g are concerned, I see no reason to skim, small regular water changes are really easy on such a small system. There is a nice little "surface skimmer" addition you could do which allows the top of the water to be "skimmed" eliminating water funk. It is called the Nanobob skimmer, and I think you should be able to look up where to get one on nano-reef.com. I have one and it works very well.

But, to answer your question, there is no reason you couldn't drill this tank, it is glass and the same rules would apply as for most glass tanks. the back is flat, so no curvature to worry about. If you drill, make it for the reason of adding a sump so you can run a chiller, have an easy top-off, etc. in addition to skimming. I wouldn't drill it just to skim.

jmo,
-A

 

[misery]

Yeah, it's basically to use the equiptment off my big reef- I want the sump for topoff, etc. A closed loop with a mag 7 would be pretty cool, too!

 

[Newreeflady]

That's cool.

As for flow, not sure how poweful the mag 7 is exactly, but on my 12g I am running two maxijets, a 900 & a 600, to two seperate returns and I get pretty good flow. I actually had two 900's, but decided to swap one on because I couldn't keep ricordea, even in the farthest corner, from moving. I have pollicipora on the floor healing from what I think might have been damaging flow about 5" from the output from a 900 I was running to the hydorflo in the corner.

-A

 

[Scottkelly911]

In my opinion, I would not drill a nanocube. I've got a Nanocube 12 dx and with the reputation of glass cracking on these things, the last thing I'd want to do is compromise the already fragile glass of the nanocube. I'd look into another tank, or just use some pvc piping to go down into a sump etc. If you're gonna run open top, this would be pretty easy to do without having to drill. Good luck though, sounds like a fun project.

 

[tangreef68]

the mag 7 is 700gph btw

 

[misery]

Yeah, I was hoping that the back of the units would be some form of plastic, with all the 'internal filtration' and stuff I've been reading about... I might just have to go for a ride and see what I can come up with.

No way I'd drill the glass on a wee tank like that.. Prolly break it

Basically, My goal is to make an SPS dominated tank, with halides, and a sump at under 30 gallons. I want to drill, etc everything so that I can have a very neat looking tank w/ the mess underneath, and still use the top-notch stuff I've bought for my big tank.

 

[Timothy01]

with the top gone you could make a smaller hob overflow that could suit your needs, you would have to custom make it to fit with some arylic.

 

[misery]

Blah... one of those 30g cubes being made nowadays is starting to look pretty darn good