Viewer Request Video - No Drill Over Flow

[@NYGOLD]

A work of art!!! It's always easier to use "talking paper" to explain things.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Talking paper lol! Never heard that one. I will have to use it. Thanks for coming by

[@Aaron.Reichert]

I've been thinking about this idea for about a month. I don't have the material, tools, or need to build one right now. However I was thinking about running a small hydroponic vegetable garden linked to a fish tank... And of course somebody's already thought of and created this overflow device. It's elegant and even solves one of the problems I hadn't figured out yet. I'm always slightly disappointed and also rather excited every time I come up with something only to find somebody's already made a better version of it.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Don't feel bad there can always only be one first or best. The rest of us will have to just be happy with second lol!

[@Deon0026yickadee]

I can listen to you all day. Very good key points made about how this works And why it’s important to get specs close as possible for effective use. Nice drawing and building with the voice over. Best teacher. Take care my friend.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Hey Deon! Great seeing you! How have you been? Thanks for coming over and watching. Much appreciated

[@koiCompetitions]

Dude your projects are so easy to follow.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Cool! Glad you like them

[@jreese6287]

Good video. Some people attach the air hose to a power head in the sump to keep the vacuum or restart the psiphon when the power comes back on. I am sure you know this is for other readers

[@FishmanEricRussell]

If you leave the air line in the outside box it actually performs the same function. That little bit of head is enough. Thanks for taking the time to watch and share your thoughts

[@FISHTANKCULTURE369]

Great video to start with your narrative is spot on 🔥I need more information on this , to restart the siphon when power is back will appreciate advice 🙏

[@Shiznoo]

Awesome!!! Love the design! Thanks!!! I will post when I get one up and working!!!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Col Alex! Look forward to seeing it

[@PerplexiaX]

Awesome! It's just easier to drill the hole, fit a drain pipe into it, and attach the drain hose! Personally, either way, I would wrap some screening around the intake to the HOB overflow to keep my fish from being pulled out the same way I wrap the intakes of my HOB filters... Especially if you have fry and/or very small fish! Great Build, Though!!! :-)

[@PerplexiaX]

@Brian Roberts Well I don't know about everything, I'm just saying that yes, it would be much easier if you COULD just drill a hole at the level you want, but my main point is putting on some kind of safeguard so that you don't lose your fish. I just use simple window screening! It's woven pretty small, and allows the water through without bringing anything else in! Oh, and Thank You for your response , and I wish you a good night! Now, if you'll excuse me, my bed beckons me! Yeah, been a Long day! lol :-)

[@johnbowering1428]

Hi could you tell me what thickness should I use to make a flat tank lid.i made a lid for my betta tank out of 5mm acrylic and it keeps bowing I've tried to brace it but it still bows. by the way another wicked build.john UK.

[@PalJoey-rm2yh]

What I can't get an answer on, mainly because most people use these inside overflow boxes, is what happens if you just drill a hole an inch from the top of the aquarium and attach the bulk head and hose down to the sump and a screen inside the aquarium to prevent the fish from passing through. The return from the sump (above the water line to prevent back flows) would fill the tank and push more water down to the sump. The simplest system as I envision it and no ugly box inside the aquarium. Is it a noise issue? Or am I not accounting for something?

[@raypimienta7670]

I think its because ppl tend to redo there tanks and change things around. once you drill a tank your pretty much committed to it.

[@AquariumsAnonymous]

Awesome, I really enjoy your projects!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thank you! Much appreciated

[@AussieAquatic]

Let me congratulate you for 10K Right Now!!!!………..what's a few weeks :)

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Lol! Thanks and for watching

[@taiaquatics]

tks for the great build. wondering if you extend the inside box to touch the bottom of the tank and flip your drainage grate to the bottom, top of the box flush with the top of the tank, outside box the same; will this act as a vacuum system to pull debris off the floor of the tank? maybe one or two slots in the top to act as a skimmer then the rest of the flow through the bottom. will this work? or will it just overflow the tank?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Glad you liked it! Unfortunately you can't suck water from the bottom with this style of overflow

[@FishmanEricRussell]

I saw that you had left two more comments, but when I click on them nothing came up. If you could retry leaving comments on those videos again I would be happy to respond

[@IAmKyleBrown]

Very cool. I'm trying to understand the risk if you get air into the "U" pipe. I'm thinking if enough gets in the siphon is broke and you would have a tank overflow?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

An air block results in an overflow only if you pump water into a HOB. If you are pumping it out, all that happens is it will run dry.

[@getthatcornouttamyface2461]

Travels through the KZbin, right onto my iPad screen.😉

[@FishmanEricRussell]

You don't know how many takes I had to do so I wasn't saying U tube ever 5 seconds lol. Thanks so much for watching

[@sirpfa]

Hey look who we have here... My self laughing friend :-) I didnt know you build tanks too... Good job i have a question. I saw some internal back sumps where there are some hole or lines in the bottom rather than the top like overflow. Can you please tell me what that is?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Sorry I'm not sure to what you are referring. Could you clarify please

[@sirpfa]

Fishman have you even seen an overflow and bottom sweeping system?

[@JimHanleyfishing]

Another masterpiece my friend

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks as always Jim!!!!

[@joemunoz1251]

Cool design Fishman 💪

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks Joe! Great seeing you

[@tentyme1]

Have you made a through the glass one that you’d drill the tank? I’d love to see if you have made one.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

I have in the past, but it was before I was recording for KZbin.

[@jjcale2288]

Great! So all I need is a youtube! And an aquarium. 😃👍

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Lol! Yup!

[@ritesha8050]

Hi . I need your help. Which dimension of the u-tubes should I use if I’m using a 6500l/h pump. Thx

[@FishmanEricRussell]

That's over 1600 gal/hr. I would not trust this style of overflow with that much flow. I would drill the tank. The hole should be 2" in dia. Hope that helps

[@ritesha8050]

@@FishmanEricRussell ok thanks man

[@foyezali969]

Wonderful.thank you. Is that chloroform using for fixing/gluing?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

It's methylene chloride. Thanks for watching

[@Made2hack]

Awesome stuff. What's the gluing solvent you use? DCM? MEK? Cheers!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks! It's methylene chloride. Thanks for watching

[@irishaquarist]

First :D Very cool video have to say. Would be cheaper to make it out of PVC, but for demonstration purposes that overflow system looks pretty cool. Could add flake food to demonstrate the rate of flow :)

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Great seeing you!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

I should have done that as I did with the HOB lol! Thanks for coming by

[@irishaquarist]

@@FishmanEricRussell Always a pleasure stopping by :)

[@coltdevine994]

I want like 6 of these!

[@BIGRATDOGHEAD]

Unbelievable work Fishman, what are the chances I could contract you to build me one similar? Just watching you work I am more confident in your skills then I would ever be in buying something manufactured in bulk.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks so much for your kind words. Sadly building and selling on line is too expensive. The good news is I do lots of giveaways so just keep an eye out and hopefully you will win. Thanks again

[@Sue.5776]

I wondered how those worked. Thanks again How would you build a HOB diverter? Is there a way to have it end in a spray bar or something floating plant friendly?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thank you I'm glad you liked it. The easy way of putting a spray bar on a HOB is to reverse how the water goes through it. Instead of using a pump to pump water into the filter use the pump to pump water out. Then all you need to do is attach a spray bar system to the output. Hope this helps and thanks for watching

[@Sue.5776]

@@FishmanEricRussell Course the easy way won't work in my situation. The HOB is on a shrimp tank and is a recent purchase to replace the in tank pump that was decimating baby shrimp. Any other simple ideas for directing flow from a HOB? Thank you.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

@@Sue.5776 You could give this a try kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYqXioCPadKemc0 especially the one in the thumbnail. Just have it cover the whole output

[@Tropicalfishcrazechannel]

Sir excellent job

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thank you so much!

[@blkicemike4857]

I actually like your project better than the " U " shape tube design,.. Thumbs up bud!!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks much appreciated!

[@AngelosFishTanks]

Oh nice. I knew you’d make look awesome.. thanks for sharing Eric. It looks great 😁👍🏼. I didn’t get around to emailing you yet. Really sorry..hopefully I’ll msg you soon. Really sorry.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Glad you liked it Angelo!

[@colinhamer6506]

I'm thinking of crossing this with your matten filter with a slim sump same height as the tank to stop Guppiy fry passing through with a course sponge at the top of the matten for safety and possibly using float switches in the tank and sump for extra safety with a auto top up from container underneath 🤞

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Sounds cool! Let me know how it turns out

[@colinhamer6506]

@@FishmanEricRussell will do is there a way I can send you pics and videos I find it hard put my thoughts into messages as I'm dyslexic like most great thinkers 😊

[@FishmanEricRussell]

@@colinhamer6506 [e-mail]

[@nilaselawati6642]

Sir can you make a tutorial a diy pokpo overflow aquarium..please

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks for the idea!

[@smallghost0253141]

When will this glue fail? May I use Glass glue?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

It's actually a chemical weld and not a glue. It can be used to hold fish tanks together. You can't use glues that work on glass for any plastic. Thanks for watching

[@RaceSmokie]

Thank you!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thank you for watching!

[@beatap6250]

Awesome 👍👌👊🙋

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks so much!

[@KevinsCaninesAndAquatics]

My issue with drilling is I have 4 10 gallon tanks and from what I hear drilling 10 gallon tanks is a nightmare because of how thin the glass is

[@FishmanEricRussell]

It is possible. You need to fully support the back though. Commercial tanks use very thin glass.

[@tiewkiat]

I always wanted to make the u tube out of acrylic. But I have no space where I live for a workshop setup.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

If you use thinner dia. tubular acrylic and more of them you can get the same affect. You can bend the the smaller tubes by gently heating them with a number of things around the house. Thanks for watching

[@tiewkiat]

@@FishmanEricRussell thanks. I always felt bending acrylic tubes is an advance technique. I like your channel and is currently working on some minor modifications of your undergravel filter.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

@@tiewkiat That's so cool! I would love to see what you come up with

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

I run a couple of these overflows I like them

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Hey Coop! Great seeing you

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

@@FishmanEricRussell great watching your vids as always

[@1980s-fan]

Great video ... I thought the airline idea was brilliant.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks glad you liked it!

[@casual257]

if you don't have an mill machine, (most people don't) you can cut the slots with a router table! better then a table saw.

[@FishmanEricRussell]

For sure. A good router will do nicely

[@jonandlisa2000]

Neat build 👍

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks much appreciated

[@adeelshaikh2129]

Very nice

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thank so much!

[@zaldyoreo726]

Looks amazing! Can that handle 300gal? Can you make for 600gallons? 😊

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Yes. Overflows can be made to handle most flows. Higher flows actually work better as they help prevent air blocks from forming, though if they do (through poor maintenance) there will be lots of water on the floor lol

[@AquariumCop]

My viewer request video would be , Adopt me ! ✌💕🙆👪 Added to my playlist titled - DIY's for fish keepers 🙏

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Well my daughter is out on her own now so I do have that spare room lol! Great seeing you cop

[@AquariumCop]

@@FishmanEricRussell okay , only requirement Mattress in the middle of the room for bunny and I , and tanks 360° around the walls , keeping a tiny space for the door to open . lol 😀😂

[@FishmanEricRussell]

@@AquariumCop Just like a rock star with all of the perks lol!

[@AussieAquatic]

LOL :)

[@AquariumCop]

@@AussieAquatic lol😂👏

[@VStag]

Awesome Video Thanks for sharing FishFam NJAE19

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Hey Stag. I always know where to find your comments. KZbin always sticks them in the spam folder. Glad you liked the vid and thank you for coming by

[@SandyDoughty]

Wow that it so cool!!!!

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks so much Sandy!

[@phreshbrocoli]

title says "no drill"?

[@FishmanEricRussell]

For non drilled tanks

[@imchenaquatics]

Why do you keep giggling sir

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Just keeping it light hearted

[@jamesmitchell6231]

Most freakin complicated over flow lol

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Thanks James and for taking the time to come by!

[@muckshifter]

That's not complicated ... let me find a 10 year old to explain it to me. :))

[@FishmanEricRussell]

Lol! Thanks for coming by

[@NoSaltBP.org.]

Very Nice!