Starting to plan our 300DD system

[Kahuna]

We have just come into a brand new 300DD at a great price. One of the first things that I would like to do is get rid of the dual overflows and drill the back for a bean animal full siphon overflow. This would entail cutting out the corner overflows ( I think they are a huge junk trap ) and use the four openings in the bottom of the tank to feed a closed loop system in the rockwork. I would also like to have random flow and don't want vortechs or tunze units in the tank.

Thoughts?

Kev

 

[ridetheducati]

I plan to do the same in the future, except drill the back for a glass-holes.com configuration; and cap off the four original holes. I plan to run four Tunze 6105s for flow.

Closed loops can get expensive, generate unnecessary heat and require more maintenance than a Tunze or Vortech setup. Closed loops are great, especially with an OceansMotion, but the juice is not worth the squeeze.

 

[Kahuna]

Hmm. I looked at that link and that is a nice setup, especially if you wanted to make a peninsula tank. We want to shadowbox the rear of our tank, so we want the glass as wide-open as possible. I was told that the setup I put on my tank that is now up for sale is a bean animal overflow, but it isn't, it's something different. I have a good friend with this setup and it is beautifully silent on his 125 and works well with just the one overflow he has. We would use two.

Kev