Its time for a new tank

[spshead01]

Alright im sick of my old 125g tank. So its time to upgrade tanks. I think Im going to go with a 96/30/25 with starfire front and sides. I dont want a standard overflow box and glass cages dosent do external overflows so I am thinking about having a overflow the whole length of the tank so I dont have anything protruding into the tank, but I want to leave as much room as possible. How wide do you guys think that the overflow should be?

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

Doing a external C2C I would make it wide enough to get my hands in it .In case a bulkhead leaks or need to for cleaning.That would be sweet to see on a 300 gallon tank.

 

[spshead01]

Yeah I'm thinking between 4"and 6" wide but 6" is to wide I think. I was going to go with a 36" wide tank a 375 just so I could get 32" front to back with a 4" overflow but it almost doubled the cost of the tank. Hows the 240 coming?

 

[SNAKEMANVET]

The tank is still holding so far.I think 4'' would be wide enough.

 

[spshead01]

Me too That leaves me with 28" left to aquascape. Ive never had that much room to work with in my own tank this is going to be fun. I cant decide if I want to go with a closed loop or go with the new stream 2 6205's. I think that I can save some money in the long run with the 2 stream 6200's even though there over $500each over 10,000gph at less than 80watts is hard to beat. But then again the new super dart golds are pretty energy efficient. What do you guys think?