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Old 11-16-2010, 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Polscot View Post
welcome to the fluval nano nation, that tank is gorgeous, u did the light mod amazing dude, and chance you could post or pm me detailed info on how you did your plumbing and ATO, i wanna redoo my edge with better plumbing, and did u just order all your lighting from cree.com?
I've attached a quick sketch of the plumbing/overflow. I simply used 1/2" PVC to get the job done. I drilled three holes in the back piece of acrylic just big enough for 1/2" PVC pipe to slide through. For the drains I used a Tee and a cut off piece from an elbow to sandwich outside the acrylic. The return is simply a 90 and a 45 sandwich. The fittings where glued in place and silicone was used to seal around the hole.

The two drain tees simply act as standpipes preventing siphon, they are tee'd together to a single drain line.

Personally I don't think this is the best way to go, if I could have I would have just notched the back acrylic piece and added an external overflow in a more traditional manor. However I went this route purely for the ease of doing it in my current situation.

The LEDs were ordered as a kit from RapidLED
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