This is why drinking and reefing don't mix.

[fishbox]

So the plan was simple. Have a drink or two or a few:beer:and remove the top brace today. This way I could later replace with a eurobrace, drill two holes in the back wall, and install a DIY coast 2 coast internal ghost overflow leading to an external overflow via two holes drilled in back wall some other day.

With a Dremel and cut off wheel in one hand, and a beer in the other, I managed to get 95% of the top brace lose and the beer got my brain lose. I thought 95% was good enough to just go ahead and lift the brace till the rest came lose:headwalls: WRONG!!!!!! As I persisted to lift, I heard a big CRACK

I took out a section of the back wall about 1.5" down from the top and about 5" long from the end of the tank. My heart stopped.

 

[fishbox]

Delete

 

[fishbox]

So, here is the cracked tank

 

[nereefpat]

Bummer, man. Don't do anything crazy like try to repair it. New tank time, as I'm sure you know.

In my experience, drinking runs rampant among fish tank folk

 

[fishbox]

I'm thinking this tank is done when I realize that I have a Dremel in one hand and my buddy left this tile cutting rotozip bit here. Back in business!!
I used the tile bit to cut out the back wall of my tank. Now I don't need an internal box nor do I need to drill holes to the external box.

Here's what I did in the pics below.

 

[fishbox]

Here

 

[Meshmez]

PUT THE BEER DOWN... wait... PUT THE DREMEL DOWN. ah who am i kidding, nice work!:beer: I'm interested to see where this goes... haha

 

[Reel North]

Forget it. When tanks are done with rear overflows, they are notched at the rear. The back panel is not cut down. That looks like 3/8" glass as well. All that will happen over time is that the rear overflow will pull the back panel away from the rest of the tank. Unless that cut is perfect, you will also have uneven flow in to the overflow....

Generally, what you are going to try to do is a bad idea, and will absolutely result in a tank failure, and a disaster in your home.

Replace the tank. PLEASE

 

[johnike]

 

[fishbox]

Forget it. When tanks are done with rear overflows, they are notched at the rear. The back panel is not cut down. That looks like 3/8" glass as well. All that will happen over time is that the rear overflow will pull the back panel away from the rest of the tank. Unless that cut is perfect, you will also have uneven flow in to the overflow....

Generally, what you are going to try to do is a bad idea, and will absolutely result in a tank failure, and a disaster in your home.

Replace the tank. PLEASE

I thought of both the unevenness and the possibility of the back wall being pulled. I can silicon a thin straight edge to the back wall to get it straight.

Because the panel is cut all the way across and not notched, the sides of the rear overflow box will have to overlap and be siliconed to the side panels of the tank. So there's no way it would pull the rear panel apart.

 

[Reel North]

All I can say is what I said above. In my opinion, this will end very very badly.

 

[fishbox]

I hear your advice and appreciate it, but I'm looking at this and don't see how.

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[reefteaser]

...'you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.'
Rick in Casablanca

 

[BrickFishHouse]

All I can say is what I said above. In my opinion, this will end very very badly.

Ummm... Yeah...

I could be very wrong, and this could turn out to be freaking awesome....

...but I'm seeing bad things happening... Really bad things... Deuce Bigelow type of bad things...

(I hope I'm wrong)

 

[fishbox]

Lol

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[Nina51]

Here, on the floor.

fixed that for ya because that's where everything...water, fish, rock, is all gonna end up if you go forward with this tank.

even if the chance is small, do you really wanna spend a fortune on stuff that will go in your tank and then lose it all when the inevitable happens?

 

[sde1500]

honestly, how much was the tank? probably not that expensive, yet taking the risk of putting much more money into it seems silly. Risk vs reward here doesn't tilt very favorably. Why risk it, just buy another tank and try again.

 

[110GTJ]

Haha this is funny

 

[kabe87]

I think you did a damn good job.

 

[fishbox]

Buying a new tank is no prob. But all I'm hearing is it won't work. I'm not hearing why it won't work. Structurally I see no way of it failing. The sides of the external box would be siliconed the (outside) sides of the display tank. How is this different than any other external coast 2 coast overflow. I'm just trying to understand

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