Today in aquifers presents part two.
We're going to set up the tank in the standard.
No, this series is all about featuring AquaForest products.
This episode is actually all about reef octopus,
and specifically it's about the reef octopus Lux T
90 tank in stand, which if I'm being really honest, two months ago,
I didn't even know that it existed. When I think of Reef Octopus,
I think about their pumps that are wave makers, but of course,
I think about their protein skimmers.
The boxes for the tank have been sitting in my living room for three weeks. Now,
maybe four weeks, I've resisted taking a peek inside,
even though I really want to see what this tank and stand looks like.
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Okay. That being said, my first thing I need to do is build the stand,
but I kind of want to take a peek and look at the sump and the tank first.
So let's do a little sneak peek real quick.
This one looks open because my kid has got into it. Really.
Sump comes with the plumbing and then I see in here, a reef octopus return pump,
filter, socks, all sorts of stuff. See you in there. See,
all right, sneak peek into here. This is the reef octopus luxury system,
the Luxe T 90. Nevermind. You can actually see a lot.
Here's what we got here. Looks like it comes with the mat accessory pack. Oh,
okay. I'm saving the best for last. Okay.
That was just enough to make me excited and to wet the palate onto the
First off.
Like the first thing I've really noticed about this one is the number of pieces.
It's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven pieces.
The second thing I noticed is the sheen. I don't know if you can see it,
but this is almost like, it almost feels like a piece of heavy duty plastic.
Do you see that reflection right there and kind of see the reflection?
It doesn't feel like MDF. This is the top piece.
But look at the thickness of this. I mean, that's like three fingers thick.
This seems to be an insanely high quality stand.
The only thing I'm a little confused about is I opened the boxes and I don't see
where's the hardware. Do you think it's in here? Maybe
I'm hoping that this stand my only take me like maybe like an hour to put
together. I know that's probably really wishful thinking, but you never know
this is the return pump. Oh, the skimmer pumps,
skimmer skimmer to maybe it's in the summer.
How do you think? But no direction.
Socks, plumbing, float valve.
Oh, wait, wait, wait underneath here. And what do we have here?
Why would it be underneath the something I'm guessing it'll only take me an
hour. Also.
You can find a link to this aquarium and the stand in the description below.
I'm hoping this will be pretty easy. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven. I am estimating,
this will take me one hour. Ready? Steady can go.
I just think it's so much easier and so much more satisfying to have all of your
hardware organized.
First step one C put a sidewall on
[inaudible] step two. Looks like we're attaching the door hinges.
So think we're attaching these
[inaudible] piece, that this piece on you have this piece on you. Okay.
So we're attaching or detaching those to the side.
Now those are the door hinges.
[inaudible] I'm about halfway done. It goes together like some Ikea furniture,
just like with the kind of nuts and bolts they use.
But that's where the similarities end.
Because when you are screwing these things in, they latch on so much stronger.
And when you're doing like an Ikea and you're screwing into here,
it feels like you're just going to over tighten it and pull it out.
But this is super solid.
Came an hour and four minutes in. I'm not done. Like I thought I would be,
but honestly,
I would say 30 minutes of that half of that time has been because of filming
step four. It looks like we're going to put the top on next,
which I believe is that
step five install. It's like just like some mounting hardware.
Step six is attached to the door. So really it's just steps five and six.
And then step seven says attach the,
but the sticker has already been attached.
Only forgotten.
I mean, I didn't forget. I knew I had to do it. I haven't secured the top yet,
but I forgot where I was moving it. And so I lifted it up and it popped off.
This is done. And wait, how long did it take me?
And the time was one hour and 41 minutes and probably 40 minutes of filming. So,
you know, something, it probably only did take an hour,
which really isn't that bad. Let's take the 40 gallon breeder.
This is this like the PetSmart stand. So like this is example number one.
What are we out here? Height is 30 and a half inches. That's example.
One example. Number two is the fluval M sixties.
Let's just say 36 inches. So a little bit taller. Okay.
Here's example number three. This is the APS stand. Also 36 inches.
So three feet on this one, three feet on the flu vote. But check this out.
We have 40 inches. So it's four inches higher.
There's where the 36 Mark would be.
This thing sits so much taller than everything else,
which means a tank is going to be much more in my line of sight. You know,
the easiest way for me to tell that this stand is way taller
than any other standard ever owned,
because I can actually sit inside of it completely upright.
Stand.
It is done. If I wasn't filming it,
it probably would have taken me tops an hour and a half.
This is the sturdiest wood stand I've ever said. It is definitely the heaviest.
The pieces are the thickest. So far, this stand gets an a plus rating.
It's probably the best stand I've ever set up complaints.
If I had any complaints about the stand,
I was missing one little screw back here,
but I could have easily just done something to it and lost it myself,
but I didn't need it.
The other issue I had was one screw attaching the door, wouldn't go in.
It was like it was stripped or something. I didn't need it.
Cause there were three other ones. Are there any other complaints that I have?
I don't think I have any other complaints about it.
I'm I'm legitimately trying to think of a complaints I have about it right now,
but no, those were my only two complaints. So good job. We've octopus.
Let's move on to the some,
everything you see inside is what comes in that sump package.
It's an acrylic sump. So it's pretty lightweight.
It's more of a Berlin style. You look, you're not going to see baffles.
There's baffled, I believe.
And I think it's this package here so that you have basically one large main
compartment where you put your huge oversize protein skimmer,
and then you have your return compartment, which will control the water height.
And it's also for your gravity controlled auto top off,
which has included two flexible tubing. We're going to use everything stock.
We're not going to do anything fancy when he's everything stock return pumps,
circulation pump the IQ 3,925 Octo filter
socks. Okay. So this is the filter sock attaches onto the side like that.
So I mean, it's something like that, a baffle.
So I believe what you do with this is you're going to take it.
I mean like this, and then you're going to have a baffled compartment.
So you install the baffled. Then you put your return pump over here.
Unions are really nice if you've never done the tank before having these unions
makes removing things really easily. So has unions just has a clear front here,
but then all of the sides in the back are gray.
So let me undo the plastic and then put it in there to see what it looks like
and see how it fits.
Looks pretty good.
Overall, it's just a really good fit. You know,
just a little bit of gap on each side game and see kind of cool down here.
The bottoms are rounded even. So it gives us this really clean look to it. Okay.
At the time.
I made this video,
the reef octopus Luxe T 90 it's retailing
for $1,800 plus $300 for freight
shipping. So it's around $2,100. It's a competitive price. I'm not gonna lie.
Is it expensive? Yeah, it's, it's, it's an expensive tank,
but you're getting what you pay for. You're getting high quality products.
You're getting that amazing stand. You're getting an acrylic sump.
You're getting the return pump. You're getting the high end reef, octopus,
protein skimmer. You're getting all of your tubing. I mean,
just compare this to, you know, to any of the other options out there from,
from red sea or from water box JPJ, innovative Marine.
This is an extremely competitive price.
If not even more affordable than some of those other options.
I believe it's 48 gallons. It's low iron glass. Oh my cats don't need all this.
I haven't looked at it.
So I'm glad to see there's no gigantic cracks or anything like that.
Nice to come to the mat. I'm gonna have to cut a hole though.
Right there. Shouldn't take long
Tankers in couple issues. We had setting it up, not big issues.
The map was not quite cut. Right?
So instead of running like straight back like this,
it ran a little bit of an angle. The issue has been solved.
We just had to cut it a little bit. It's a really clean system,
super clean light beveled glass edges. The back is where it gets really,
really interesting.
This section here is where you put in the auto top off water.
My only concern about this is that it's not very large. Here's the overflow.
Okay. The water, like the water runs here. It runs all the way down into here.
So that means this whole back area here is the auto top off reservoir,
but it's really, really thin. So you see how thin that is right here. I just,
I'm not sure how much it's going to hold.
Am I going to have to refill the auto top off every single day so that you can
see how much has left? So, you know, when it's getting low,
I am loving the fact that this we're runs the whole length.
So you're going to get an amazing surface, skim,
unlike any other tank I've ever had.
This is where the water drains down and it goes down to this.
This is something I've never seen before in any tank ever,
it's called the slim flow. This is the overflow. No joke.
This right here is where the water comes down and it goes into
here. This is where it drains here. Let me show you see this. It has a primary,
an emergency. And then the return line are all down here. And not only that,
but you also have the auto top off hole over here as well because it's a gravity
fed auto top off, but because they put the overflow here,
what that means the back section here is crazy slim.
Normally you'd either have to have an internal weer that right,
that sticks out and it takes up space in your tank,
or you'd have to have some sort of low profile overflow here.
So if you look over here at this tank, sorry, it's gonna be really blue.
This is an overflow. So yes, you have a really slim overflow inside,
but then you have to put this bulky overflow on the outside.
This won't have any of that.
You can put this up against the wall and there's nothing back there.
That's the benefit of having the overflow in here.
This is where the water return line is.
So the water is just going to come out of here. So completely flat,
really cool ideas, super clean build.
Can I ask you the one glaring thing I forgot to do? Can you see it? All right.
Let's just do a little time. Lapse of me fixing that one. Glaring problem.
Tick.
I think going really smoothly. This is definitely one of the best.
If not the best builds I've put together in terms of quality wise links to it
are going to be down below a huge thank you to coral view to Aqua
forest and to reef octopus for sponsoring this build.
I know we didn't talk about much aquifers,
even though the series is called aquifers presents,
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We're calling the setup. We're going to set up all the rest of the gear.
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