I was thinking the same thing...

Not another user with multiple personality disorder:razz::lol:

Tagging along.

What's a beananimal style overflow?

It's sort of like a Herbie with 2 emergency overflows I think. It's like a triple safety of NO floods. I read up on it about 9 months ago and I vaguely remember it.

http://www.beananimal.com/projects/s...ow-system.aspx

Some light reading. Check out some of the Youtube video's too. Pretty cool system. I am going to switch over to it. Just waiting for the with to not be home one weekend.... easier to not have the nagging about doing this plumbing in the living room again...

Great plans - and you will love that size tank.

Are those garbage cans? May be prudent to avoid using those as they are not known to be stable.

A buddy of mine did a water change station using a glass aquarium, plumbed in-line to the main system. A great idea, collects sediment when not in use, and holds a fixed amount of water so you can buy a balance and weigh the amount of salt required! No more guessing how much to add. Nice. I would use this approach should the time come.

Hi

I run a beananimal overflow - Dead silent. Completely stable. Totally reliable. - I would never use any other style overflow.

I used to run two closed loops on my tank. I've taken them both out in favor of Tunze powerheads. I agree with you on the engery considerations, but I also feel that closed loops have many other drawbacks. Obviously, they are much easier to hide when compared to powerheads, but that seems to be the only advantage. I will never run another closed loop.

I am also building a 300G tank (72" x 36" x 27"). Basically the same with a couple of extra inches for hieght.

Hope we can share some ideas.

what the.. why have I not subscribed to this thread yet..

Looking forward for more large reef porn :biggrin:

People actually subscribe to threads here? What I love about CanReef is you can just hit the new posts button every visit unlike other sites. Nothing can get burried more than a page between visits and you see everything. Try that on RC and you have like 10,000 new posts lol.

But some of us rely on our iPhones to tell us when new and of-interest posts are made :-) .. as well as hitting the 'new post button' every few minutes :redface: .. you know, just in case there is a new post in between.