Hello fellow reefers
Here I'll share with you my short experience with Waterbox AIO 20g Cube.
(WB owner for the first time, since 1½month)
First of all, I'm from Canada, I have ordered my tank and the stand directly on the WB website, and for real the shipping was really really fast and well packaged.
The general quality of all is really good.
Nice thick melamine for the stand, and the glass and silicone rubber is high quality.
With the tank come sponge, mesh bag with zipper with charcoal and one with bioballs, circulation pump and a filter sock.
So now, we will talk about the 2 big issues (imo) with this kit.
1-the filter sock;
The filter sock is much too thick, and woven much too tightly.
It is very stiff and difficult to turn upside down and it is almost necessary to pass the sock under a pressure machine to get it properly cleaned xD.
Which means that the filter sock is always clogged... I have to clean it at least twice a day to avoid irregularities in the water level in the different chambers of the intank sump.
Example;
I clean the filter sock day 1 at the end of the afternoon, the next morning I already notice the lower water level in chambers 2 and 3 of the decanter, and the much too high water level in chamber 1 (the one with the filter sock). And when I come back from work that same day without cleaning the sock in the morning, chamber 1 is almost overflowing and chamber 3, the one with the circulation pump, is 3/4 empty.
It's really annoying and it make my skimmer going crazy like good water level not enough water downskim overskim ...
Solution : I have bought a intank media basket (nice to a have a right place to put charcoal and bio bags) and I'll put bonded Poly filter floss instead of the sock.
2- the circulation pump
The circulation pump is really noisy by time, it's like a vibration sound, and seems to coming directly from the pump itself. Sometime the pump stop to making noise, and then restart this weird vibration anytime.
Solution : I'll bought eventually a sicce syncra silent 1.5 pump Wich is couple more gph(357gph) than the originally one (264gph) and fully adjustable.
For now, that's it with my reviews ! If you have any tricks, update to yours feel free to share it here !
And if you have any questions, planning on buying WB AIO tank, feel free too to post them here !
Thanks all, happy reefing !
Jess
Here I'll share with you my short experience with Waterbox AIO 20g Cube.
(WB owner for the first time, since 1½month)
First of all, I'm from Canada, I have ordered my tank and the stand directly on the WB website, and for real the shipping was really really fast and well packaged.
The general quality of all is really good.
Nice thick melamine for the stand, and the glass and silicone rubber is high quality.
With the tank come sponge, mesh bag with zipper with charcoal and one with bioballs, circulation pump and a filter sock.
So now, we will talk about the 2 big issues (imo) with this kit.
1-the filter sock;
The filter sock is much too thick, and woven much too tightly.
It is very stiff and difficult to turn upside down and it is almost necessary to pass the sock under a pressure machine to get it properly cleaned xD.
Which means that the filter sock is always clogged... I have to clean it at least twice a day to avoid irregularities in the water level in the different chambers of the intank sump.
Example;
I clean the filter sock day 1 at the end of the afternoon, the next morning I already notice the lower water level in chambers 2 and 3 of the decanter, and the much too high water level in chamber 1 (the one with the filter sock). And when I come back from work that same day without cleaning the sock in the morning, chamber 1 is almost overflowing and chamber 3, the one with the circulation pump, is 3/4 empty.
It's really annoying and it make my skimmer going crazy like good water level not enough water downskim overskim ...
Solution : I have bought a intank media basket (nice to a have a right place to put charcoal and bio bags) and I'll put bonded Poly filter floss instead of the sock.
2- the circulation pump
The circulation pump is really noisy by time, it's like a vibration sound, and seems to coming directly from the pump itself. Sometime the pump stop to making noise, and then restart this weird vibration anytime.
Solution : I'll bought eventually a sicce syncra silent 1.5 pump Wich is couple more gph(357gph) than the originally one (264gph) and fully adjustable.
For now, that's it with my reviews ! If you have any tricks, update to yours feel free to share it here !
And if you have any questions, planning on buying WB AIO tank, feel free too to post them here !
Thanks all, happy reefing !
Jess
