IOAOI Coralland 8 Gallon AIO

[billyocean]

Their skimmer i got is a beast

 

[IOAOI]

One of our amazing sponsors here on #Reef2Reef is now an aquarium manufacturer! I recently received the brand new to the market @IOAOI 8 Gallon All-In-One Coralland glass aquarium. Packaging was great, aquarium looks great. Looking forward to setting it up soon!

4 Chambers in the back - 1 is a filter sock (2" I believe) with a prefilter/snail/fish guard grate covering it. The next two are what appears to be a media chamber and a possible skimmer chamber followed by the return chamber. The corners of the glass are cut at 45° instead of the standard 90° which is neat.

I'm planning on making my own rock for this one. Likely a single arch with several small shelves.

I'm thinking an island beneath the arch for Strats or something.

I'll post pictures once the rock is made.

Did you take it out? Is there any damage?

 

[tbrown]

Did you take it out? Is there any damage?

There doesn't appear to be any damage. I haven't taken it out of the bottom foam sleeve yet. I'll work on that tomorrow! But no evidence of any damage at this point. I definitely like the looks of it

 

[Imrahilwjz]

Following

 

[LadyMac]

Their skimmer i got is a beast

I love the little nano skimmer! I have to get right up on the tank to hear it. I’m hoping to get the larger in sump one going soon.

 

[danieyella]

Kinda wish I'd known about this before buying the dice, but - Beelzebub seems happy with his new 12g tank either way. 8 would just be a slightly smaller footprint.

 

[LadyMac]

Kinda wish I'd known about this before buying the dice, but - Beelzebub seems happy with his new 12g tank either way. 8 would just be a slightly smaller footprint.

It does seem like a great little tank and it’s on my watch list for the little fish keeper. If I can talk mama into it.

 

[tharbin]

I was just using gel superglue, no epoxy.

That's why your fingers came apart. The epoxy will help level the gaps so that your fingers can stay nice and stuck.

I usually only use gel superglue for corals though, unless I have a lot of trouble with the rockwork.

 

[AlyciaMarie]

There doesn't appear to be any damage. I haven't taken it out of the bottom foam sleeve yet. I'll work on that tomorrow! But no evidence of any damage at this point. I definitely like the looks of it

 

[tbrown]

I've been gone all day and was only home for an hour or two yesterday... I'm working on it.

 

[tbrown]

Ok, leak testing has commenced!

Still need to figure out what I'm using for a stand.

 

[tbrown]

Here's what we've got for the Aquascape so far:

Not sure yet if I want to do two towers as it sits or add a small shelf across the top and do a small island in front in the middle...

 

[tbrown]

Didn't lose a single drop of water through seams last night so leak testing looks good!

I also think I figured a stand for at least temporary - my 6 gallon AIO is sitting on a plant stand that's almost the perfect size for this one but I don't think I'm tearing down the 6 gallon...

The 20 gallon freshwater tank is sitting on a wood shelf on a 10 gallon steel stand. I think the stand would work almost perfectly for the 8 and 6 side by side. I am tearing the 20 down as soon as my wife's ankle is ready to help me do some tank swapping.

 

[BriDroid]

I got one delivered today from Amazon Vine, so it was $0 (have to pay taxes). It’s packed very well and a really nice little tank. I also agree with their nano skimmer being awesome (I have it in my other nano).

 

[IOAOI]

I got one delivered today from Amazon Vine, so it was $0 (have to pay taxes). It’s packed very well and a really nice little tank. I also agree with their nano skimmer being awesome (I have it in my other nano).

Is there any damage or crack?

 

[BriDroid]

Is there any damage or crack?

Not that I see. I unpacked it just an hour ago. Everything looks great, the packaging was very good!

 

[tbrown]

I'm hoping mine is set up in the next couple of days.

 

[tbrown]

I haven't forgotten about you all here! Working on my wife's 110 so we can put it in place and then the 8 gallon goes next to that. I need to figure out lighting for this little guy still though... I think I'm done with the rockscape - going to go with the two towers for now. I'll probably make a hanging shelf for the back once it's up and running I imagine.

For the lighting I was going to use my Nicrew but with the 4 chambers instead of 3 it makes it difficult. I considered notching the bracket but we'll see if I decide to go a different route.

 

[tbrown]

I'm going to use sand but the rockscape looks decent to me.

Garbage pic though:

 

[tbrown]

I'm going to need to either paint or block the left side of the aquarium on the right side of the tank otherwise it's going to cause a lot of light bleed over.