Tempered tank or diy plywood build?

[Kash]

Here's my conundrum:

I was planning on building a plywood 180g tank 72" x 24" x 24" for my Brown Knife, Sen Bichir and Ompock catfish. I found and bought a 140g 60" x 18" x 30" tank off CL and after cleaning the sludge out of it, saw the sticker that said it's made out of tempered glass. Does drilling the tank make a big enough difference for me to clean this tank up, sell it, and put the money towards the 180g build, or do you guys think this is a good size tank for when my Knife is full grown and I should just go with HOB overflows since I can't drill this tank? Or am I just completely off in thinking a tempered glass tank can't be drilled?

This probably goes without saying, but since I got the tank for 100 bucks (it came with a stand but I'm going to build my own for it to accommodate sumps,) keeping this tank and using it would come out costing me a lot less than trying to build the 180g.

Thanks,

Kash

 

[deeda]

You cannot drill a tempered glass tank!

 

[boldtogether]

TEMERPED GLASS C A N N O T BE DRILLED!!!

 

[Kash]

Thanks guys! Anybody has another for the rest of my post?

 

[Kash]

From what can gather, I think only the bottom is tempered glass. So I'm thinking about drilling it at some point and finding out!

 

[littlewangzfan]

From what can gather, I think only the bottom is tempered glass. So I'm thinking about drilling it at some point and finding out!

That is risky unless you are 110% sure the sides are not tempered.

 

[Adamrhh]

Good luck your probably going to ruin your tank then not have any money to put toward your180 build rendering you broke and your fish out of a bigger home which in return will force you to give him to a lfs which in return let a fat chubby kid in a white starwars outfit with cheetto stains buy him for his 20g

 

[Kash]

Adamrhh, that's pretty specific on what's going to happen to the poor fish! lmao

But you do have a point, although I'll be able to get a replacement glass piece just for the back for about 100 bucks if it does break. Might be a better idea to first call the glass companies around here and see if any of them have a way to test and see if it's tempered or not without actually breaking it.