93 cube reef

[gji]

anyone who has one or had one in the past.... I'm looking for advice or any draw backs to owning this tank. Do you regret buying it or would you purchase again. I am down grading from a 180. its to expensive and time consuming to do a reef in the 180. So any advice would help. I know i don't like the height of the stand and no I'am not handy enough to build one, so anyone know of a local builder to build furniture grade stand? any advice on a refugium. TIA

or will i regret down grading

 

[ct_vol]

I'm curious as to what you feel the high costs of the 180 are? The savings on smaller tanks really isn't much proportionally, especially if you already have the equipment. I guess electrical and water changes would be about it. You may be cheaper trying to get your current tank right vs dumping and starting over smaller.

180's are one of my favorite sized tanks, but the dimensions in the 93 are nice as well.

 

[reefer roman]

I have two 93 cubes and I love them. Dont go with factory stand. Too low to get any equipment underneath them.

 

[alb_56]

Stand has been fine for me but I do keep things out of the stand if I can. For me the cube filled really quick and I ran out of space very fast. Otherwise I've been very happy with it and have reccomended it to other people.

 

[Hoopz87]

I recently setup a 93 cube and LOVE it. There's room for equipment. Not A LOT but you could fit a good size sump if you caddy corner it. And more than enough room for a reactor. My skimmer is pretty big (bubble King) and it fits fine. The cubes save a lot on space too. I have over 30 corals and still have room for more. These pics are before a lot of Coral Went into it. Good luck! View attachment 327594View attachment 327595View attachment 327596 View attachment 327598

 

[Hoopz87]

^ now my whole bridge on the right side is filled with zoa's Rastas, fruit loops, utter chaos', fire and ice, really coming out nice. Good luck ! Added chalices, scolymias, acros and more !

 

[danielp]

In my opinion you will regret it. I will shortly tell you my story.
Wifey got pregnant with twin boys, I decided for the sake of time, my marriage etc. to downsize from 100gal reef to 50gal cube tank reef (24x24x20).
Initially it was all great, easy water changes, every 7 days 5-6gal buckets, 15 minutes done.
But I quickly run out of space for corals, miss like crazy bigger fish, its just not the same.
So in the meantime I bought 16gal cube just for some nice zoas and some lps like small frags of acans or blastos.
That still does not cover my love for bigger fish... so wife proposed maybe its time to bring the 5ft long 100gal tank back. You do not have to tell me twice, bought already rock at Aquapros, started to clean the tank, because it still had water in since last year. I will bring it back, put some dwarf angelfish there, some butterflyfish and maybe one tang or sargassum trigger which I miss like it was my baby (sold it here on RC). I know that tank is not the biggest, but since its 5ft long its better for fowlr than reef anyway.
I know maintenance can be a pain in you know what, WC etc., but to be honest I miss it, I miss the size, miss the overall presence.
Maybe just change to fowlr for some time, you can skip WC here and there, but you still have a big tank. Just my thoughts.
ps-thankfully I did not sell my acrylic tank that I got as a bfday gift from Old Town Aquarium, I wanted to give it up for 600-700usd and nobody wanted it, blessing...

 

[Hoopz87]

In my opinion you will regret it. I will shortly tell you my story.

Wifey got pregnant with twin boys, I decided for the sake of time, my marriage etc. to downsize from 100gal reef to 50gal cube tank reef (24x24x20).

Initially it was all great, easy water changes, every 7 days 5-6gal buckets, 15 minutes done.

But I quickly run out of space for corals, miss like crazy bigger fish, its just not the same.

So in the meantime I bought 16gal cube just for some nice zoas and some lps like small frags of acans or blastos.

That still does not cover my love for bigger fish... so wife proposed maybe its time to bring the 5ft long 100gal tank back. You do not have to tell me twice, bought already rock at Aquapros, started to clean the tank, because it still had water in since last year. I will bring it back, put some dwarf angelfish there, some butterflyfish and maybe one tang or sargassum trigger which I miss like it was my baby (sold it here on RC). I know that tank is not the biggest, but since its 5ft long its better for fowlr than reef anyway.

I know maintenance can be a pain in you know what, WC etc., but to be honest I miss it, I miss the size, miss the overall presence.

Maybe just change to fowlr for some time, you can skip WC here and there, but you still have a big tank. Just my thoughts.

ps-thankfully I did not sell my acrylic tank that I got as a bfday gift from Old Town Aquarium, I wanted to give it up for 600-700usd and nobody wanted it, blessing...

To each his own of course and I mean no disrespect, but your talking about a 50 gallon cube, he's talking almost double that size And the depth on a 93 is great 30 inch depth While being a space saver as well. A 5 foot long tank is great but also takes up a whole lot more room.

 

[danielp]

Of course this are two different sizes, but he is potentially downsizing half of his reef tank, as well as I did. There is no comparison 90 to 180, especially that as I imagine it is 6ft long tank. Just my 2 cents.
At the end of the day he has to be happy with his tank. I would not do it...

 

[gji]

I like that idea Danielp, I think I will keep the 180 and run it FOWLR with easy softies, this will remain in my front room( no Tv) and put a 60 gallon cube in my living room(with tv) and make this a strictly a sps tank.

 

[gji]

Or maybe still do the 93 cube and not sell my 180 just yet, decisions

 

[johnike]

I just turned my 240 reef into a FOWLR and am in the middle of setting up a 93 cube for my reef.

 

[danielp]

Ohh by the way 93gal cube has fantastic dimensions, if I was smarter I would definitely "downsized" from 100 to 93, hardly a downsize, hard to explain to wife but it would not be the first time I had tough but successful try with her. 30inches deep, you cannot beat that for a reef tank (well you can do 40... 50 etc ).
The main thing is, are you going to regret it??? Do what you think will make you happy, if its really a pain to keep 180g tank just for the sake of having it whats the point? Maybe I just do not know what I am talking about because my biggest one was and is 100 gal only.
Its a hard decision, but I am addicted and want to have more and bigger tanks.