Anyone have the new Solana?

LorenK · Oct 23, 2007

Anyone have the new Solana cube by Current? I saw some pics on nano-reef.com and now am wanting to trade in my Aquapod!

143gadgets · Oct 23, 2007

Nope, but I checked one out at the LFS and they look pretty cool.

Leishman · Oct 23, 2007

I can only see 1 crappy pic @ phishybusiness.com but the tank looks nice, not to keen on the light though, looks kinda 1970's

FateX8 · Oct 23, 2007

my friend is getting one once the lfs gets em in
hes getting that tank and an oceanic stand
even the stand doesnt look very good imo

ficklefins · Oct 23, 2007

In the picture the light doesn't look too bad, but I found this thread with pics of the whole setup. Nice looking tank, but they need to do something with that light. I wonder if you can buy the tank alone because I would!

http://www.swfmas.com/node/233

FateX8 · Oct 23, 2007

yeah you can, but it seems like most people opt to buy it all?
maybe they think its easier to buy the whole setup?
ill post pics if the lfs ever gets his tank in

LorenK · Oct 23, 2007

There are definitely much better pendants out there. I'd even rather stick with my sunpod.

Personally, I like the stand. But I have a bunch of similar furniture so it would blend in for me.

jessp · Oct 26, 2007

I saw the tank in person at one of my lfs and the thing looks awesome IMO. The light looks super cool and the tanks rimless style is super cool as well. it was 750 bucks for everything. seemed like a reasonable deal.

FateX8 · Oct 26, 2007

well the thing finally came in on wednesday but apparently the stand was sold out so thats coming in on wednesday
he's getting an oceanic stand thats black with a tinted glas door in the front
and im gunna get the tank drilled for a sump and put a scwd in the back chamber
things are turning but without the stand, nothing can be done
tank is still at the store too, gunna get everything drilled at once
hes getting a 20" 150w sunpod for it, looks fairly decent
also gunna use black sand, his picasso clowns are already in my tank so theyre ready to move over in a month or so
only major thing left now is rock
pics will come once we get the stand
so far the tank is only 280 and the sunpod is 230 and the stand he said is really cheap, around 100
so for just that setup its gunna be around 650 after taxes and stuff so not bad, cheaper then the stuff that comes with it but nicer imo
then the picassos were 275 from carolina frags, thanks ex82nd
also bought the regular stuff from dfs: sand, some chemicals, pumps, misc stuff ~200
so far everything cost 1125 but hes starting from complete scratch

143gadgets · Oct 26, 2007

FateX8 said:
well the thing finally came in on wednesday but apparently the stand was sold out so thats coming in on wednesday
he's getting an oceanic stand thats black with a tinted glas door in the front
and im gunna get the tank drilled for a sump and put a scwd in the back chamber
things are turning but without the stand, nothing can be done
tank is still at the store too, gunna get everything drilled at once
hes getting a 20" 150w sunpod for it, looks fairly decent
also gunna use black sand, his picasso clowns are already in my tank so theyre ready to move over in a month or so
only major thing left now is rock
pics will come once we get the stand
so far the tank is only 280 and the sunpod is 230 and the stand he said is really cheap, around 100
so for just that setup its gunna be around 650 after taxes and stuff so not bad, cheaper then the stuff that comes with it but nicer imo
then the picassos were 275 from carolina frags, thanks ex82nd
also bought the regular stuff from dfs: sand, some chemicals, pumps, misc stuff ~200
so far everything cost 1125 but hes starting from complete scratch

Sounds like an AWESOME setup. You should have him join us and start a build thread.

DrBegalke · Dec 1, 2007

You can get with the SunPod:
http://www.current-usa.com/solana.html

FateX8 · Dec 1, 2007

you dont really get it with the light, the sunpod would be sold seperately
my friend already has the sunpod for his and i know a couple of other people usin the 20" sunpod on theirs too, but any 20" lights would work

Hypertek99 · Dec 1, 2007

Looks nice i like it.

Biertrinker · Dec 4, 2007

Just ran across a blog written by a guy who works at Current USA. He briefly discusses the Solana design in these two posts http://ikescurrent.blogspot.com/2007/11/solana-aquarium-wsunpod.html
and
http://ikescurrent.blogspot.com/2007/11/solana-pendants.html.

Tank looks great, but I am a little unsure of the light. Also, I don't really like that the door to the stand is see though. Would rather hide ugly aquarium tools behind an opaque door.