tore down reef tank, drilled it, then set back up with before/after pics

Hello everyone,

Due to growing frustration with my 33 long reef tank above my entertainment
center caused by typical overflow box problems, i decided to take the tank down
and drill it.

Total project time was around 6 hours, I won’t go into great detail but I knew
it was going to be a lot of work and it ended up being a lot of work, very glad
it was only 33Gal.
Anyhow, one thing I will mention is that I gravel vac-ed the
substrate to remove most of the crap that would have caused bio problems after
setting it back up, and I went with a shallower sand bed when I set it back up.
All that gross water went into a tank I just set up, that will give it a good
jumpstart.
So, here are pics.
This is the tank before
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Here is the overflow box before

This is the tank after

And the plumbing after

And finally a water test done the following morning.

I must say that I took out a few large rocks and I really like to more open look the tank has now. The whole job was very worth it but I am not looking forward to moving at all now.

 

Very nice I like it. They say once you go drilled you will never go back.

 

Posted By xroads on 01/08/2008 9:31 AM
Very nice I like it. They say once you go drilled you will never go back.
Indeed

 

''I must say that I took out a few large rocks and I really like to more open look the tank has now.''

the new scaping looks great.

 

It looks great, i love that gigantic rock with the huge hole in it. Where did you get that at?

 

looks good, are you going to be the expert at the cr meeting on tank drilling?

 

if i am then we are all in pretty big trouble.... that was only my third tank! but i'll have number 4 under my belt in the next week or two.