Coming up the unboxing and tour of my Royal
exclusive DreamBox.
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So look, what's coming down the driveway,
a special delivery from FedEx. Yes.
Direct from Germany.
The Royal exclusive DreamBox is being offloaded and it was dropped
right on my lawn there. I'm going to
uncrate it and put it on a hand truck and get it into the house. But, uh, yeah,
that's, as far as it was a dropped off and the FedEx guy took off and,
and it was up to me to uncrate it. So I,
I went into action with the drill and got the top, uh,
pieces of plywood off and I removed all the panels on the side and got it
all ready to rock and roll there. She is a lot of blue,
little styrofoam blocks to help cushion it during transport they're from
Germany. And yeah, well, those were great little toys there from my, uh,
dog Wilson. So we played a little fetch, you know, why not? There we go.
So I got the dream box on a hand truck and started going to the side yard.
There goes Wilson again, and got the dream box into that house.
And eventually got it into the sump room. There she is.
So now what I'd like to do is just go through all the different features and
options that I got on this dream box. So overall,
this dream box is 74 gallons and measures approximately
59 inches long by 24 inches wide and 14
inches tall.
It is made of PVC and it is Bulletproof.
So let's start with the inlets on this dream box. As you can see,
I've got some of them, a hard plumbed that I'm going to talk about.
All the plumbing that I did on this dream box in a separate video is really,
really involved.
But what you can see here is I have five different inlets and two of them are
for the drains for the display tank.
And for these inlets are one-on-one half inch. And the, uh,
the fifth one here is a one inch, um, inlet.
But the really cool thing is that, you know,
you're not locked into the specific size of the fitting to do come off pretty
easily. And there are different fittings that come with the, uh, the dream box.
So you could just easily slide those different fittings in and out,
or you could use, you know, adapters. So for instance,
on this one right here, this is an one inlet fitting, but I used a,
an adaptor to knock it down at three quarter rich.
So it's good to have that flexibility.
It neat feature with these dream boxes is that they can come with these cutout
covers that you could easily take off and do your necessary maintenance.
But the big thing here is that it really does cut down on the
evaporation. So it's,
it's just nice to have it all sealed off and very
accessible for maintenance. So it's really something that, um,
I like what these dream boxes in terms of these, uh,
covers very cool in terms of mechanical filtration.
This dream box comes with 10 different filter socks. The,
the first three are 800 micron filter socks. So they're grabbing the,
the larger particles. Then the next three are 400 micron socks.
And the last four are 200 micron socks.
So very substantial mechanical filtration system
industry box.
In terms of the skimmer, I've got a bubble Kang, double cone,
200 it's rated for systems up to 264 gallons.
My tank is 225 gallons,
and I really didn't want to get a oversized skimmer because if you do have an o
versized skimmer, then it's going to be skimming on an inconsistent basis.
And that's not a good thing.
So if you have a lot of fish in the tank and a heavy bile load with those fish,
then yeah, you wouldn't want to step it up with a skipper,
but that's not really my plan in terms of adjusting the water level inside the
skimmer. It's really easy.
It just turn this wedge pipe either clockwise or counter-clockwise
in terms of cleaning the top pops right off and good.
Also unscrew the cup,
which is nice as for the feed pump.
It's an RD three mini speedy, it's 50 watt DC,
and it's controllable.
I also have two probe and dosing tube holders.
There are actually different, um,
places in the dream box that you can glue these in.
You have to actually glue them in. They don't do them at the factory for you.
So you have options in terms of where you can do that.
But I like the fact that it's gluten, so it's really rock solid.
And you know,
certainly there are some pro boulders out there that you attach with magnets
and I've had some experiences with those where they could slip and move down.
And that's certainly not a good thing.
So it's nice to have something that's really permanent in there and nice and
clean. So moving on to the next compartment,
I mean boxes where I've got my me reactor,
I'm gonna use this one for activated carbon and a really cool part
here is that, um,
you have the option to have these actually screwed into the bottom of a Dr
eamBox. I think that's really neat. It's just, um, did a really hold it. Well,
it's not gonna float around in there. Yeah. Just unscrew it.
And then you just would be able to unscrew the top to swap out your media
really neat. Then there's some pipe works.
So this is pipe works right here has got a valve on it.
And that's all plumbed in to my return. Pomace so I could adjust the flow.
Would that in the next part of the dream box,
we've got this baffled right here and that could be, um,
slid up or down by adjusting these screws. So that's pretty cool.
You could adjust the water level and that part of the sump next up is a
compartment, um, for the heater.
So this is where you can put a heater on here in the next section of the dream
box. In the last section, I've got two return pumps. They're red dragon,
100 watt high pressure pumps.
And I do like to have two return pumps in my systems,
just for redundancy and also to, um, give me more pumping power. And I'll,
I'll go through this in the plumbing video,
but one of these pumps is going to serve a couple of different purposes.
It's going to help in terms of doing water changes,
and it's also going to feed a frag tank.
So I do like to have two for those reasons,
plus redundancy in terms of fittings for the return pumps.
I've got two of them there, one in one quarter inch,
and I'm using one inch PVC piping.
So I've got some adapters to knock down the one-on-one quarter inch to one
inch. This is the controller cockpit for the dream box.
So this is where the three different controllers for the pumps are mounted.
I like it a lot neatly organized they're high and dry and easy access.
Another feature I wanted to point out are the cable holders.
So you could take the cables for the three different pumps and put them off to
the side store. Nice and easily there. That's great.
And last but not least is he led lighting system inside this dream
box. So you could actually see what you're doing.
You could change the callers and, uh, Hey, check this feature out.
The dream box can be the life of the park.
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