Matt continues his review of the Ecoxotic 25 gallon LED aquarium system which will be the future home of the闪电栗色小丑鱼. Following up on his unboxing of展台, here is Matt’s take on the 25 gallon, 18″ Cube Aquarium from Ecoxotic.
The other day we starting revealing the生态25加仑LED水族馆系统我们正在通过步调，从评论开始拆箱。下一篇文章详细介绍了该工具包中包含的无框水族馆。蝙蝠的权利，生态毒理想要的礁石制造商传达了这些坦克是由现有美国制造的，用于生态氧化。我们知道，精通互联网的水族师喜欢发出多汁的谣言 - 不，这里没有索拉纳（Solana）盗窃。
如该水族馆所证明的，生态氧化与电流之间有很多合作。最大的差异是大小 - 生态毒理为18英寸。立方体容纳25加仑，Solona水族馆为20英寸。在34加仑的额定值位数为34加仑。因此，实际上，关于生态立方体的许多关于生态立方体的说法完全适用于当前的Solana设置的任何人。一个快速的外观在线告诉我，Solana Cubes获得了相当可靠的评论，因此我要说的关于较小的生态氧化版本可能不会感到惊讶。
我们都对运输玻璃盒感到紧张。你们中的一些人甚至可能还记得，生态毒理寄给我的第一个水族馆实际上被货运公司压碎了（这不是标准坦克，所以它不是FedEx）。那么，Ecoxotic的25加仑立方体如何使用联邦快递批准的包装和运输？
we have to say, Ecoxotic did well with this tank. The beveled glass is beautiful. The construction is immaculate with truly the biggest flaw is a tiny dab of black silicone on the back plastic panel making up the filter compartment. The black felt on the exterior bottom was totally unexpected and a touch that got interest (and high marks) from more than just me. The Loc-Line type returns are cool for those who like them. Me, I’m a fan of less is more when it comes to stuff visibly in the tank and it was very easy to reconfigure the returns into a single flared outlet.
另一个引人注目的创新是无框坦克上的玻璃顶。我的意思是，说真的，他们如何将其拉开？不要犯我最初试图将玻璃顶放在水箱上，在前窗格和过滤盒之间平衡的错误 - 就是NOT怎么运行的。实际上，有四个黑色小夹子可以用作支撑 - 您只需将它们放在坦克的轮辋上，然后将玻璃顶放在它们上。如果您不想要玻璃上衣，那就不要安装那些小夹子。
该过滤是考虑到海洋水族师的设计（淡水爱好者可能几乎不需要蛋白质脱脂器）。水贯穿内置的表面撇渣器，并带有前滤器海绵进入第一个腔室，这是用于蛋白质撇油器和加热器的。这是我关注的一个区域，加热器区域几乎不容纳新的Ehiem Jager 100瓦潜水器。这是一个紧密的合身性，但在此隔间中的水位上的上升空间将始终保持恒定，使加热器完全淹没。
The second chamber is the smallest and is designed with another prefilter, a “drip plate” that is really more of a just a coarse divider and a duplicate at the bottom. Talk about nice little thoughtful things, a simple ring made out of a black zip tie is all it took to make removal of these trays extremely simple.
这个中间室装有四袋迷你生物泡和两个碳。虽然新的鱼类管理员可能会使用这些物品，尤其是在做只鱼类的坦克时，许多礁会以各种想法注视着这个房间。我当地的一个礁伙伴之一建议这是放置泵以驱动外部媒体反应堆的好室。我？我目前正在沉迷于避难所的可能性，可能利用一个小的白色生态氧化台状条将中间腔室照亮了反向光周期，也许会增加一定数量Chaetomorpha在那里。也许我会同时做。
最后一个腔室是泵室和自动topoff室。我发现这是一个非常简单和巧妙的设计。两个小型水库瓶将像办公室水冷却器或自动猫浇水器一样工作，以使水在过滤器区域的适当盐度和水位保持运行。这很好。
Overall, it really looks like the crew at Ecoxotic thought this through pretty well. The pumps are Current water pumps according to the tags on the power cords (mental note if you’re like me and always want to have a backup on hand). I should note that flow-through is slightly higher than my old Nanocubes — the Ecoxotic is set up with a pump that runs roughly 400 GPH through the filtration system.
If I had to point out things I’d like to see changed, first I’d simply point to the filter box’s external materials. The rough plastic is going to be difficult to clean if someone wants that “clean background” look. Black glass would be my first choice (I like cleaning with a razor blade) but perhaps it’s not practical (or we’d be seeing them on all tanks!). I’d like to see a bit more space for a heater. Another observation is the cover for the filter box (yes, it’s that black plastic polygon visible when I first opened the inner box). The one shipped out is simply flat, which makes it difficult to keep it resting in place on top of the filter box. We’ve been told by Ecoxotic that this has already been addressed, and future filter lids will have a slight lip that allows for positive placement of the cover.
Of course, I’d encourage Ecoxotic to look at the possibilities of tanks without integrated filtration as well for those who want sumps — that would be a variation I’d be very interested in. I’ve seen an 18 in. cube on their Facebook page sans filter…very very pretty! That said, after seeing how local reefer Jay Hansen runs his SPS frag tank (and more importantly, the impressive results within), I’m confident I’m going to be able to do some impressive things with the built-in equipment.
在初始水测试之后，每个人都想知道，没有泄漏。My initial comments are that the protein skimmer is perhaps a bit loud (but many skimmers are, that’s just the nature of the skimmer) but it may run quieter when I’m running saltwater in the tank (finer bubbles with saltwater, so possibly less noise). I thought the filter cover would help dampen the noise more than it did. I’m not 100% sure about the auto-topoff and leveling yet. When draining from my water test, they didn’t empty their contents. Saltwater may act differently than FW though, and the fix would be just drilling out the holes slightly larger.
通过过滤的流动非常快，如果新的业余爱好者不希望为坦克循环中付出额外的资金，这使该立方体的基础循环非常好。尖端 - 双重检查从泵到插座的软管附件；插入两分钟后，泵就断开了连接，并且过滤器中的水位开始上升。这使我进入了我的最后观察，如果电源熄灭并且您正在以低位置运行撇渣器杯子，那么水可能会溢出到撇冰杯中，从而导致坦克水与撇渣器混合在一起。我不确定是否有任何方法可以防止这种情况，因为任何视觉内部撇渣器可能会遇到同样的问题。目前，我在仍然被玻璃杯覆盖时尽可能高。
In all regards, Ecoxotic avoided providing cheap filtration that would just get you by. There was certainly some thought put into delivering a well-rounded setup that could perform in step with their flagship LED lighting. And when it comes to looks, well, the water tested tank speaks for itself!
在第3部分中，我们将揭开Panorama LED Aquarium灯具的17.5英寸。
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