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Setting up a reef ready as a herbie overflow (my wife will knife me if its loud) Tank is tempered so i cant drill the back for the returns. Does anyone know of a more stable solution for dropping the returns over the back rim with street 90s? Looking for maybe a DIY bracket or soemthing maybe 3d printed that would secure the returns better to the back rim of the tank? Dont know if something like this exists or there is another solution to make this as clean as possible.

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For a temporary tank I would over complicate it. These have work well for me on any of my temporary projects.
 
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ya i have seen those but i am going to hard pipe returns and i want to drop them in over the corners into the overflows and still utilize the cutouts in the corner overflows for the returns i more looking for a way to keep the pvc from moving around on top of the rim of the tank but maybe ill just make something with some acrylic to keep it from moving around
 

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ya i have seen those but i am going to hard pipe returns and i want to drop them in over the corners into the overflows and still utilize the cutouts in the corner overflows for the returns i more looking for a way to keep the pvc from moving around on top of the rim of the tank but maybe ill just make something with some acrylic to keep it from moving around
If it's hard plumbed and loc-lined thru the hole, it's not going anywhere. The weight of the water can also be factored in. I ran my 75 years that way.

You have 2 holes in each box?
 
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If it's hard plumbed and loc-lined thru the hole, it's not going anywhere. The weight of the water can also be factored in. I ran my 75 years that way.

You have 2 holes in each box?

yeah 2 holes in each overflow box its a seapora 135 gallon
 

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