simple solution. look at a pane of glass through polarized glasses. if it has all the waves its tempered. if not. you are free to drill. I actually contacted them about their tanks and they told me that some are tempered and some are not depending on whats available to build with at the time. so when shopping takes some polarized glasses with you and you can find the right one. just a helpful tip. Great video! keep it up
@@ReefDudes yea i contacted them because i was wanting to drill out a bunch for frag tanks. thats what the rep told me to do. take some glasses because they are random.
@@ReefDudesput a phone behind it with a pure white screen and look at it with polarized sunglasses. Oily looking waves means it’s tempered. Impossible to drill.
Nice Video. And a great lesson handled with relative grace, considering how mad I would have gotten. I just finished drilling one of these through a 70 Gallon WaterBox with 1/2 glass. These overflow work awesome once they're installed. I did get Slightly confused on the gaskets though. eShopps need a bit more update guidance on the gaskets, give multiple reviews and articles online which offer conflicting guidance. So far, no leaks
@@ReefDudes Maybe you should change the title - drilling glass is not entertaining until this - LOL. Plus the shock on your faces as you sit there discuss how to fix it is priceless LOL. I'm so glad that he decided on getting the RIGHT tank.
Oh man that sucks!!! I was paranoid about that when I drilled my 40 breeder but luckily it wasn’t tempered glass. It will be nice to see how to replace a glass panel though
Hi Reef Dudes,..Do u have a follow up video to this, what drain modifications did u eventually do for the main drain as well as the emergency. Im looking at this drain box as well.
Went through this. My sticker was hidden upside down and under the trim. So no way to see it unless the trim was pulled off. This was a 75 aqueon brand. After contacting them learned there is a shortage of non tempered glass and they will randomly use tempered in some or all sides. Also I was originally planning on using the eshopps overflow box as well. However there is no way to install these ‘correctly’ on a rimmed tank. Your waterline will always be well below the black trim and look bad. Just a heads up. Good luck guys!!!
Its one of the sleeker overflows so will likely stick with it but good to know! I guess one could just raise the standpipe height and close a gate valve a bit to raise the water level higher.. could work!
ReefDudes one thing that I was going to do was glue a piece of cut acrylic to the inside of the overflow to essentially raise the teeth of the box, raising the water line. Should work. Good luck dude! Interested to see how the floating reef turns out
Not that easy to replace a pane. Chances are when you won't succeed in removing the shattered one without breaking more. This is just a 40G breeder? Get one from petco when they are on sale.
ReefDudes it was drilling, The drillbit was lopsided and I think that’s what happened because it was not tempered and I had water running on the whole time. And plus I’ve drilled other tanks and they came out just fine.
ReefDudes - Yes it is. They say if you put a laptop behind the glass you can tell if it’s tempered. I tried it and couldn’t tell. When you hear that distinctive POP. Dead giveaway. Plus they shatter in a million pieces. Normal glass won’t break like that.
i was really looking forward to this because i got an eclipse too, but there is so much conflicting info about how to install it. their website, and the manual are conflicting, as is the advice i got from BRS. where are the gaskets supposed to go??? my instinct tells me one on either side of the glass, but that will create gaps between the box and the tank... have you actually successfully installed one of these? maybe i'm asking the wrong guy since you just tried to drill a tempered tank! lol, j/k
Edward Yezekian the gaskets go on the inside of the tank between the glass and over flow box and the second gasket goes between the glass and the external box I literally just installed this yesterday and was having problems with it leaking till I did it this way.
Edward Yezekian I was recording not drilling :P haha follow up video once we replace the panel will go through that haha. Part of the adventure: No sugar coating and keeping it real! :P
Lol I was looking away from the screen when the tank shattered.. all I heard was pop and as soon as I heard it I said "tragic" for my whole office to hear
My local Petco stores (and petsuppliesplus) only do their dollar per gallon up to 29, both the 40 breeder and the 55 are 50% off... So the 40breeder comes out to $50+tax
I have one of these overflows on my frag tank and I do not like it. The rear chamber is lower than the front chamber it leaves it sloshing and making lots of noise. If you increase flow to try and quiet it down it runs the rear chamber is full to the point that it almost overflows. The modular marine overflows are a much better design. Their overflows keep the front and rear chamber equal height. They have a complete line of overflows in many different sizes including custom sizes. This is the route I will be going on my new tank.
@@ReefDudes the sound comes from the rear chamber being lower than the front and the top of the bulkhead being almost impossible to get underwater completely. When you finally get it underwater the rear chamber is full to the top and wouldnt take much to overflow it onto the ground. I also noticed I didnt get the fill capacity of my frag tank that I should have. I was never able to run the water line up where it should have been. I've used synergy reef shadow overflows in the past and had similar issues exceptionally was able to get the display level I was supposed to with synergy, but they are expensive imo. It turns out to be a design flaw.
@@ReefDudes I'll take some pics when I get home and pm you. My inside box is mounted all the way to top of glass touching the lip of the top rim of display.
