75 gallon rebuild or upgrade

[turbotone]

brace just broke on my 75 gallon AQUEON tank so im taking this time to do an upgrade on my system..

i just purchased another 75 gallon tank from petland $129.00 painted the back black and siliconed the bottom edges to control the salt creep..

*my plans are to drill the tank from the bottom and build a overflow in the corner

*drill the return in the middle top of the tank

*make a taller stand (52")

*add an algae scrubber to my system

*add a phosphate reactor to my system

*plumbing (how im gonna run and connect everything)

*add more rock (live or dead)

*add live stand ( aiming for a 3"- 4" sand bed im at like 2") want finer sand




ok as of now i have a kit for the overflow but im trying to do research if my tank can actually be drilled (i assumed it could smh) but it might not be able to if not i have a few options these are them



1. i can keep this tank and put my existing hang on overflow (cheapest option)

2. upgrade to a rimless acrylic tank up to 100 gallons (max) reef ready

does anyone know where i can purchase custom or standard acrylic tanks?
i was going to try dutch aquarium systems but i dont know where to go to purchase it or where to get pricing from... if i do go this route i would like to go wider and rimless

 

[rkaragozler]

do not try to attempt drilling the bottom. 95% of the tanks that are manufactured have tempered glass.
if you are handy in drilling tanks you can buy an glass-holes overflow and install it in the back glass. here is one that i did for a buddy. its a dual 1 1/2" over flow, it will handle 1700 gph

 

[turbotone]

I just read into that but it was the smaller one..will the you proposed be to big for my 75 gallon.. I'm using a mag7 as my return pump..worried water will come down a lot quicker then going back up if that's even possible..

 

[rkaragozler]

water will drain just as much as you pump into the tank, I personally like using bigger because it makes it quieter.

 

[turbotone]

Thanks for that info I'm going to order it and apply that to the back of the tank... I just want to clean up my whole system...

Now to figure out how I'm going to run algae scrubber and phosphate reactor any suggestions with that?

 

[rkaragozler]

i never ran a scrubber, but their are a couple members here that do, as far as the phosphate reactor, you can t off your main pump (providing its strong enough or just use an additional pump.