Brand New 8 gallon bio cube

[Why-Me]

@tdlawdo
Is that a good enough deal to not buy one new??

 

[sfin52]

You guys this is a massive shroom. It's about 4 inches fully opened. I never seen shrooms have tenticles like this one.

 

[Katrina71]

@sfin52 More pics of the shrooms please. Any ID?

 

[Katrina71]

These are similar. Much more like a true nem.

 

[Katrina71]

What are top down lenses for smart phones? Does anybody use one?

 

[Fin]

Don’t know about top down lenses, but they make top down acrylic boxes that float and you can put your phone inside the box. The clear part of the box is below the water surface and you can take better pics, without the glare of lights or movement at the surface. Knowing me, I would drop my phone in the tank.

 

[Katrina71]

I didn't even know about these. This would have been awesome to show y'all the Black Swan.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Top down lens/box for a phone is a rectangular box made of acrylic that floats. The acrylic gives you a view from top down without glare from lights or water movement, like @Fin said. They make them for DSLRs also, but they are round and have acrylic set screws to hold them onto the lens. One of my LFS has a few of the viewing ones for looking at their corals. Tanks are low frag tanks and it's hard to see with the water movement. With the lens you can see right thru the water to the coral.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Someone on local reefing forum just ordered a new tank is selling his waterbox 190 pro reef for $1,200 in the spring, around March.
Maybe I will try to make a 5' work here...?!
Tank and stand, no sump. I have 40 breeder in my garage unused for a sump!!

For a tank that nice, I'd suggest getting a Trigger sump... or a custom acrylic sump made.

 

[Katrina71]

Might be fun taking pics topless!

 

[Magellan]

Pics or it's just gsp

This was from today right before lights out. my little JF burnin banana frag has started to grow as well!

 

[Katrina71]

This was from today right before lights out. my little JF burnin banana frag has started to grow as well!

Gorgeous!!!

 

[Why-Me]

For a tank that nice, I'd suggest getting a Trigger sump... or a custom acrylic sump made.

That would defeat the purpose of buying it used.
I don't have that kind of money to spend half the tank cost on a sump for it.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

That would defeat the purpose of buying it used.
I don't have that kind of money to spend half the tank cost on a sump for it.

Understood here, trust me.

 

[Katrina71]

That would defeat the purpose of buying it used.
I don't have that kind of money to spend half the tank cost on a sump for it.

Go for it! The sump doesn't have to be fancy.

 

[JoshH]

Might be fun taking pics topless!

Jez where has this thread gotten to!

That would defeat the purpose of buying it used.
I don't have that kind of money to spend half the tank cost on a sump for it.

Not atall, you buying a used tank frees up room in the budget for the custom sump

 

[Why-Me]

Understood here, trust me.

coincidentally, the sump for that waterbox is a glass 36 x 20 x 16
and a 40 breeder is 36 x 18 x 16
So a fijicube diy sump kit for $130 and boom I have a sump for it.
Currently I've talked myself out of buying the tank, I have til first week of april until it needs to go to make up my mind, but I have too much other stuff around here I need to do first...someday I'll get my big tank, just not in the next year.

 

[RichtheReefer21]

Thanks for the tippy cow... got us quite tipped and was delicious. Reminded me of rum chata mix.

 

[Katrina71]

I've never been able to take top down pics. I'd love to show y'all Andrew's coral.

 

[JoshH]

coincidentally, the sump for that waterbox is a glass 36 x 20 x 16
and a 40 breeder is 36 x 18 x 16
So a fijicube diy sump kit for $130 and boom I have a sump for it.
Currently I've talked myself out of buying the tank, I have til first week of april until it needs to go to make up my mind, but I have too much other stuff around here I need to do first...someday I'll get my big tank, just not in the next year.

I think it's a beautiful tank and a good deal, all jokes aside it's worth sitting down and going over the numbers again.