do you trust hob overflows

[philhawk]

well i would check at my lfs but they run independent hobs on all of their tanks. welcome to iowa.

 

[Dr Joe]

Individual HOBs huh? ALL three tanks?

I just checked...There's two LFS in Iowa, try the other one... .

I think Tipstylez was just wanting you to get an idea of what they do...

Dr Joe

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[philhawk]

i know you're just joking but seriously they have 100 tanks aprox and only have two sets of 8 tanks that are hooked together (prefabricated that way not diy)
seems like a lot of extra work to maintain individual tanks. but its not my store to make these types of decisions l

im going to have to wait until im in a new house to put up these new tanks but ill definatly be testing out the diy overflow option
most likely do 4 FW 2 brackish

 

[Dr Joe]

Well, now if he has 100 dip nets atleast he won't have to worry about passing any diseases around...
Cleaning sounds like a job for Super-Apprentise (3 tanks a day forever) .

 

[philhawk]

is there any way to make some sort of fail safe so if the overflow fails then it will shut off or have an additional overflow that is higher and runs to a drain?

 

[CHOMPERS]

Why to a drain? Go with the idea and plumb the second one to the filter too. When one stops working for whatever reason, just fix it.

 

[philhawk]

well now that i sound like an idiot

 

[Dr Joe]

well now that i sound like an idiot

Tr y ing n ot tto ccommment.

Seriously, Sometimes you just have to type things out loud to realize what you where thinking.

Dr Joe

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[philhawk]

i guess the question i was trying to ask was. is there anything to prevent gallons of water spilling out of the tank if the overflow fails.

 

[CHOMPERS]

well now that i sound like an idiot

Nope. You had a good idea. It just needed some tweeking.