Brand New 8 gallon bio cube
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sfin52
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You guys this is a massive shroom. It's about 4 inches fully opened. I never seen shrooms have tenticles like this one.
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Don’t know about top down lenses, but they make top down acrylic boxes that float and you can put your phone inside the box. The clear part of the box is below the water surface and you can take better pics, without the glare of lights or movement at the surface. Knowing me, I would drop my phone in the tank. 
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Top down lens/box for a phone is a rectangular box made of acrylic that floats. The acrylic gives you a view from top down without glare from lights or water movement, like @Fin said. They make them for DSLRs also, but they are round and have acrylic set screws to hold them onto the lens. One of my LFS has a few of the viewing ones for looking at their corals. Tanks are low frag tanks and it's hard to see with the water movement. With the lens you can see right thru the water to the coral.
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For a tank that nice, I'd suggest getting a Trigger sump... or a custom acrylic sump made.
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That would defeat the purpose of buying it used.
I don't have that kind of money to spend half the tank cost on a sump for it.
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Understood here, trust me.
JoshH
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Jez where has this thread gotten to!
Not atall, you buying a used tank frees up room in the budget for the custom sump
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coincidentally, the sump for that waterbox is a glass 36 x 20 x 16
and a 40 breeder is 36 x 18 x 16
So a fijicube diy sump kit for $130 and boom I have a sump for it.
Currently I've talked myself out of buying the tank, I have til first week of april until it needs to go to make up my mind, but I have too much other stuff around here I need to do first...someday I'll get my big tank, just not in the next year.
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Thanks for the tippy cow... got us quite tipped and was delicious. Reminded me of rum chata mix.
