Moody's Aqua Cube Journal.

[Graeme Edwards]

STATS


Tropica Aqua cube
8 liters
2.1USG
1.7UKG
9.5 WPG
20W halogen spot lamb bulb
External filtration DIY

 

[JBN]

Wow that tank must've cost you at least $100 USD

 

[Graeme Edwards]

More like £100UK pounds!

 

[jimbooo]

this will be interesting i was considering one of those for the office but the price put me off. good luck with it. what are your plans?

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Well its sitting on my desk next to my PC at the mo.

Il be putting some plants from my other tank such as Mexican oak leaf, ludwigia rubens, hygrophilia( i think its rose), echinodorus tennelus, hydrocotl sp at first just to get it going.

Some shrimps will be added and some Malaysian trumpet snails if i can get hold of them.

After that id like it to be home to some weeping moss, hair grass's and riccia.
But ill see how it develops.

I changed the bulb it came with. It had a 10w bulb with no reflector, so i changed it to a 20W built into its own reflector.

 

[Themuleous]

Cool tank, have read about these on the tropica website, perhaps a few boraras maculatus in there too, just 4-5, would look cool! keep us posted re your progress I certainly would be interested to seee how this one turns out.

Sam

PS - You've beaten me on the nano tank front! No fair! I want a smaller tank now!

 

[Luke_e]

Just googled it, bloody hell £120 !!!!
http/www.paraquatics.co.uk/en-gb/dept_155.html

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Yer boraras maculatas sounds good and would make a good adition, but i havnt seen any for sale anywere.
Mantis147 has offerd me one of his bettas to go init.

They are expensive for what it is but i didnt buy it, it was a 25th birthday preasant off the miss's.

 

[Themuleous]

Betta would probably work better (sorry for the most stupid and obvious pune there, its wasn't intentional I promise ) Wish my misses got me a cool cube tank for my 25th! It was only on Monday!

 

[Graeme Edwards]

 

[IovaykInD]

May I ask why it costs so much? Is it actually any good for growing plants?

 

[craynerd]

Iovay...i was just about to post the same question....why the hell do these things cost so much? I was gonna have a 18 x 10 x 8 inch made up for me at my LFS for £18 surely i could have got something 20x20x20 for roughly the same price!

Is it simply just a cube tank or is there something i`m missing?

Chris

 

[Themuleous]

I guess the point with these is:

i) The cube is totally glass, and from what I remember has no seals, very sheek (this is probably where most of the cost comes from, must be a sod to make 'seam free')

ii) The lighting and plant stuff (but not the actual plants I dont think) are included.

iii) They just look very cool and executive (Sp?) like on an office desk

Sam

 

[craynerd]

Ewww very sheek! I want one lol.

this hobby is damn expensive.!!!

 

[jimbooo]

i'd put most of the cost down to the fact that it's made by tropica. your paying for the build quality of the brand, just like ada products will command a rediculous price.

i'm considering buying one of these when i upgrade my rio180 to a rio400, although the price is just laughable i'm still willing to pay it for a top quality product.

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