Juwel Rio 400 Info

[Nettley]

Looking at buying a Juwel Rio 400.. has anyone got one? is it a good tank? is it well built etc?

is this worth the money:

bucket of sand for the substrate, huge plastic plant, few nice pieces of driftwood, selection of stone, juwel 3D background, 2x 300watt heater,
Jumbo filter unit, sponges and pump.. 1000 ph power head along with a 1500ph power head for the filter

Complete with a new T5 high lite unit and new light tubes, used for less than 2 months. Reflectors also included.

All around the £200 mark?

Thanks Nettley

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

They are really good tanks and that is a great price, go for it!

 

[dannyboi91]

Looking at buying a Juwel Rio 400.. has anyone got one? is it a good tank? is it well built etc?

is this worth the money:

bucket of sand for the substrate, huge plastic plant, few nice pieces of driftwood, selection of stone, juwel 3D background, 2x 300watt heater,
Jumbo filter unit, sponges and pump.. 1000 ph power head along with a 1500ph power head for the filter

Complete with a new T5 high lite unit and new light tubes, used for less than 2 months. Reflectors also included.

All around the £200 mark?

Thanks Nettley

I have recently bought a rio 240 for a lil under the £200 mark so its definately a good price for one
where did you manage to find such a bargain if you dont mind me asking?

 

[KkAaNnEe]

Snap it up i have the 300 paid £200. The 240/180 are more popular hence their price

 

[Nettley]

Thank you for the reply's .. i forgot to say its without the stand? is it stilll worth £200?

 

[TropicalJuwel]

Snap it up, thats a great price. Good tank mine is really good but if i had another I would remove internal filter and just use the tetratec ex1200 even better run 2 if you can afford. Internals not great on its own in my opinion.

 

[dbanner]

They are really good tanks. Iv had a few juwel tanks... A vision 180, vision 260, rio 180 and now iv got the new rio 400 and I love it

I paid £200 second hand. I had it with the stand, sand, fluval fx5 filter, 2 - 300 watt internal heaters, bogwood, rocks, syphon, and nets. The person I bought it off even delivered it in with the price

Since having it iv bought a background, changed the play sand for black Limpopo sand (took 35kgs to fill it), replaced the internal heaters for a single 300 watt hydor external heater and changed the fx5 filter for 2 tetratec ex1200's and IMO its much better all around

Buy the rio, you won't be disappointed

 

[KkAaNnEe]

Thank you for the reply's .. i forgot to say its without the stand? is it stilll worth £200?

Hmm thats difficult, would depend on whether you have something strong enough to hold it or are gonna have to fork out another load for a good cabinet, we're talking 400kilos here, not just any run of the mill cabinet will do tbh

 

[Nettley]

Im no to bothered about the stand really.. may make one out of breeze blocks or railway sleepers or something along those lines

 

[super-MAGuire]

Im no to bothered about the stand really.. may make one out of breeze blocks or railway sleepers or something along those lines

i got my 125 rio for £50 with stand, filter + most of a set of spare media, 1000lh head unit instead of the smaller 600 one, heater, upgraded light unit and coral sand substrate... some other bits of food and stuff too...

I think i got a bargin

OH and no leaks!

 

[dbanner]

Thank you for the reply's .. i forgot to say its without the stand? is it stilll worth £200?

Hmm thats difficult, would depend on whether you have something strong enough to hold it or are gonna have to fork out another load for a good cabinet, we're talking 400kilos here, not just any run of the mill cabinet will do tbh

450kgs of just water weight so more than that with the weight of the tank itself as well

Unless you did go with breeze blocks then I'd look at getting the proper stand. At least you know it will be safe then... And IMO the stands look nice too

 

[KkAaNnEe]

Of course lol - correction 400kilos++

but what im trying to say is to not take it lightly

 

[dbanner]

Of course lol - correction 400kilos++

but what im trying to say is to not take it lightly

Lol sorry, I knew what you were getting at. I just felt the need to add that bit in there lol

 

[Tizer]

I had a Rio 240, i wouldn't touch one with a barge pole now. I'd grab the larger Fluval Romas or even the Maidenhead Aquatics Aquamanta range.

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

How come?

Just out of curiosity