Oceanic Biocube

Well in February I got my wife a little 14G Biocube. She loves the nano fish and ricordia, mushrooms and zoa. And of course they are not in my tank LOL

Well I have to say I'm very disappointed with all in one system Oceanic has put out. The overflow chambers are useless and the lighting is the poorest quality possible
Since Feb, we have lost a PC ballast, 1 Moon light LED, and 1 fan.
Dealing with Oceanic for warranty replacement of the ballast was painful.
We finally got one but, first the 1-800 number is only good in the USA. Second they are about 2 week behind in returning e-mail. and when they do. All I got was "we are out of stock of your ballast" then 42 days later we received out ballast. I'm not even going to try to get a new LED or fan I'll find them locally.

It's very difficult to keep a successful Nano tank when 1/2 your light it gone. Fortunately J&L Aquatics (LFS) pulled a ballast out of a new system to give to me. Something I felt was way beyond their duty.

Anyway just a word of caution if your thinking about getting one.

J

 

Agree. I have a biocube for the wife. Its an 8 gal. I replaced the fans with 50mm computer fans. I had to zip tie them in. Without the fan upgrade the tank would heat up to 82+. The chambers are so small that I can't do any kind of maintance without ripping open the sides of my hands. The overflow is horrible. I have film on top of water, all the time. the lighting is good on the small 5 gal, that should be a 8 gal. But I will say after moving some of my neon green polyps over from my large tank, they very soon turned brown. Oh well though, its cool to look at next to the bed. Good luck.

Any computer store should have some nice fans. Just zip tie them in.

 

By the way I LOVE your tank. I too want a 370 one day. But right now I have to finish school. All sps nice. I am not ready for the requirements of that Thing. I really respect the amount of time and effect it takes to maintain that tank. You are the man.

 

glad i didnt buy one now after reading this, I was considering buying a 2nd really small nano, 8g or so but if I do I think I'll look at another JBJ, it's been great to me with one exception, I hate taht I don't have seperate plugs for the moonlights and PC's

 

You can buy a kit to have seperate cords.... I had good luck with my nano cube also...

 

got any idea where I can get them? couldn't find on the JBJ site

 

I have ordered a few things from them... They all seemed pretty helpful.. Here's the direct link....nanotuners