Preferred Overflow Style

[Augus7us]

What does everyone like now? What type of plumbing to the sump?

When I had my tank it seemed everyone was into coast to coast style for maximum surface skimming. I've looked at a lot of build threads recently and I noticed most do not use this style.

The bean animal seems to be the most popular drain type out there. What do you guys like?

 

[X-37B]

I have used the standard durso since the early 90's.
It is simple and has never failed.
I have one on my 120 and 45 frag tank.
The herbie is an improved durso.

 

[zalick]

In my current peninsula my overflow spans most of the end of the tank. I use BeanAnimal's basic design.

If I were adding to a tank I'd use a ghost style, low profile overflow. Lots of companies make em now.

 

[Augus7us]

In doing some more reading I'm pretty sure I'm going with the bean animal as it suits my belt and suspenders philosophy.

So is a ghost overflow essentially a thin box with weirs connected to the tank with bulkheads on the inside?

What does everyone else think? You got a c2c? Do you like it? I'm mostly seeing them on the IM tanks.

Same with ghost over flows? Someone installed one in a build thread and realized afterwards their euro bracing made it difficult to clean the box. How has your experience been?

 

[danzig]

I personally like herbie, simple, reliable, efficient and quiet if used with gate valve