mkizz Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 just contacted them again, the new customer service guy said he will ship it on monday, while the yesterdays lady didnt really confirm anything. It will be here upcoming friday. I asked them to put fragile sign on the box, but he said, UPS dont really care about fragile signs on the box lol, forgot where I heard that at though.. Link to comment
akma Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 That sucks. Have to wait another week now? Link to comment
mkizz Posted April 16, 2011 Author Share Posted April 16, 2011 yeah this solana 34 came in a huge mess, its disgusting, Dust everywhere and broken plastic part, skimmers like falling apart etc etc. Disaster. Atleast I dont have to wait untill this gets back to the shop, and the shop send me one back, which can take like 2 weeks, whew. Hopefully this one will be good, if not Im just going to buy 25 gallon solana starfire glass from ecoxotic for 250 http://www.ecoxotic.com/products/led-aquar...n-aquarium.html They use fedex, so more reliable, i never liked ups anyway. Link to comment
austinp Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Man, I'm sorry to here your tAnk got there cracked. Don't go with the 25 gallon you will want to upgrade later. Just wait it out and keep complaining. Call current USA and talk to them about the situation. They have excellent customer service. Atleast that I've experienced. The shield in my nova exterme pro cracked and they sent me a replace asap, no questions. I don't mean to brag at all, but my mp10es just got here yesterday. If you can save and get a good deal on one I highly recommend it. They are so cool and are one of the best things I've added to my Solana. Good luck with the customer service. Stay persistent, a cracked tank and parts falling apart are unacceptable. Current USA would never allow that. yeah this solana 34 came in a huge mess, its disgusting, Dust everywhere and broken plastic part, skimmers like falling apart etc etc. Disaster. Atleast I dont have to wait untill this gets back to the shop, and the shop send me one back, which can take like 2 weeks, whew. Hopefully this one will be good, if not Im just going to buy 25 gallon solana starfire glass from ecoxotic for 250 http://www.ecoxotic.com/products/led-aquar...n-aquarium.html They use fedex, so more reliable, i never liked ups anyway. Link to comment
mkizz Posted April 17, 2011 Author Share Posted April 17, 2011 yeah, so try contacting current if this happenes again? Link to comment
austinp Posted April 18, 2011 Share Posted April 18, 2011 Depending on how pet solutions or which ever company you bought the tank from. I'm not positive current USA can do anything, but i would assume if they want to keep a good customer service reputation they would at least help you out however they could. Link to comment
mkizz Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 i see, well another ones coming this friday. They just picked up the broken one today Link to comment
Jet-X Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 We'll see if I'm sobbing Monday when mine is delivered. Mine arrived intact thankfully. UPDATE - my lid was cracked. Link to comment
akma Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Just make sure you do a leak test just in case. Those lids aren't good anyway. Better to just make one. Mine arrived intact thankfully. UPDATE - my lid was cracked. Link to comment
Jet-X Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 Just make sure you do a leak test just in case. Those lids aren't good anyway. Better to just make one. That's the plan for this weekend. I ordered the hinged lid (not here yet) anyway, but should I ever sell this tank I like to have all the parts. Funny thing was the manual included was for the Cardiff... Link to comment
mkizz Posted April 19, 2011 Author Share Posted April 19, 2011 haha my manual was cardiff too..maybe current just made manual for both of them..since they are the almost same thing anyway Link to comment
Jet-X Posted April 19, 2011 Share Posted April 19, 2011 haha my manual was cardiff too..maybe current just made manual for both of them..since they are the almost same thing anyway There is a Solana manual you can download off their website (Current USA site), I printed it out last week and started to read and catch up on it. Link to comment
austinp Posted April 22, 2011 Share Posted April 22, 2011 Post pictures. I love solanas. I sent my stand to a cabinet company last week to completely refinish. Hopefully it gets here soon. I see everyone getting new presents it makes me jelous. Link to comment
mkizz Posted April 22, 2011 Author Share Posted April 22, 2011 Tank is here! stand I made supports! !theres no leak! The box The current box, the box is in 100% in better condition then previous one, also had those plastic thingy that you cut off with a tape. The solana 34, waiting to go through the leak test. Ta dah~ filled it with tap water, since i was just testing Overall view, yeah living room got messy setting up the tank~ Link to comment
NU2REEFIN Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 This will be sweet, I love the Solanas. Link to comment
qwuintus Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Congrats on the Solana! I'm loving starphire glass. Check out my solana thread. I will check out your progress. Good luck! http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?...8&hl=lurker Link to comment
mkizz Posted May 4, 2011 Author Share Posted May 4, 2011 thanks heres an update from last week Dust has settled yesterday, but heres the new pictures today This was 7 days ago standing right side view front view pic Hope you guys like it, from 2 days ago I recently started to get diatom bloom, how long do you think I should wait now? Link to comment
Cheapreef27 Posted May 4, 2011 Share Posted May 4, 2011 Nice, also, i like how i always see scrubs on in peoples tank shots if they include the room. Link to comment
mkizz Posted May 19, 2011 Author Share Posted May 19, 2011 Hi guys its been awhile! My tank has finished cycle week and half ago ish. I have added midas blenny, clownfish, yellow watchman + pistol shrimp, Derasa clam, and lots of sps frags with some zoa's I also removed my 150w sunpod, and have added 2 sunbrite slimline LED's Here is the review! I went to bay mac today and bought lots of corals and 2 sunbrite slimline LED I gotta say, I love them, the best part is the remote. I really am the person that loves the blue effect, so since this has remote there is I think 11 different types of color combo you can have. Since I noticed it takes 11 click to dim a whole white bulb light or blue light. Also its cool that this has a clamp on that you clamp on behind the tank. So no need to go through all the hassle with hanging kit and mumbo jumbo. This is also made out of 12x3 watt Cree LED XP. So its pretty nice LED. 36watt total. [Par reading / Coloration] I talked to the Sunbrite guys, and the Par reading for this was 24inch was 180, with water. Not too bad, perfect for nano tanks. will cover 20x20x20. So I could of just went for 1, but as you can see my rock works are not high at all, so I needed probably 2 to keep sps. But if my rock works were high atleast up to like +50%, I could of just gotten away with 1. But since I bought 2, I can make it more blue withought having to worry about losing too par value. If this thing is at 100% white and blue on, it looks pretty white rather then blue. [blue Color] This has a different blue coloration compared to like phoenix bulb or other LED set ups I seen. While most set up blue colors are from sky blue to pure ocean blue. This LED blue was little weird for me, so this gives it -1. Its not bad, its actually okay, but I rather let it be pure blue. But I can live with this with 90% satisfied coloration. The color is actually more like turquoise color, from dark to light depending on your blue settings. Heres an example. [Dimming / Remote] Its still cool how you can control the blueness of the tank, or the whiteness, you can just play around with it however you want and be creative and create sunrise and sunset effect. It even has moonlight effect. However I noticed with me using 2 fixtures, it can get little annoying to use the remote. Since 1 remote works on both of them which is nice, but sometimes 1 fixture reads the remote little late to none while other one reads it. So both can get little off when it comes to coloration, and it gets annoying to get them back up same coloration. So its best to do it in front of the light which messes up the least However if you only have 1 fixture you can control it from wherever your sitting around up to 8ft away, sitting on couch or whatever. Normally with fixtures that has controls on them, you would have to go back up to see colors from a distance, while this allows you to change color from distance, so its little bit more comfy. The remote comes with 4 switches. A B C D. A is to switch modes. [6500k, 12,000k, 16,000k, 22,000k] +1 on that B is to switch modes from either to dim blueness or the whiteness C is to make the lights stronger (+) D is to make the lights more dimmer (-) [With remote shield slide on] [With remote shield slide off] [Mounting] As I have said before this LED fixture is clamp on where you can clamp it behind from the tank. Only problem is it does not come out far as I would like to. It almost stops before the middle. So I have more lights on back of the tank rather then upper. Im going to have to see if there are other options or If I should just keep with this. Its not bad really though. [side view] [Mounting leg] This tank is 20x20x20 Solana 34 gallon tank made by Current 2 Slimline, 30% white off New corals i got under LED, around 6 1/2 inch derasa clam $30 I bought at baymac 80% white off [12x3 watt LED 6 blue 6 white] [Manuel] [Manuel pg 2] [i rate this fixture] Dimming effect: (+1) Must have with LED fixture Mounting: (1/2) Easy mounting but does not reach far enough Modes: (+1) I like the way you can choose the mods, including moonlight effect. Style: (+1) Looks modern looking and very slim, also no fan so it stays quite, and no heat. Coloration: (-1 )due to turquoise looking color rather then pure blue Remote / Controls: (+1) Works around up to like 8ft away Price: (+1) Best for low budgets since its only $250. Its the cheapest dimmable LED (from my experince) in market. Also its Cree XP LED, + dimmable. [This gets 5 1/2 out of 7] *This fixture has 2 year warranty* Link to comment
mkizz Posted May 27, 2011 Author Share Posted May 27, 2011 new update! Yellow watchman goby One of the purple fire fish My almost 7 inch giant Derasa clam 12 head water melon Zoa's 8 head God of armor Zoa's Kryptonite Candy Cane Corals Far side shot of my Clam and my Firefish's home in the rock :3 2nd side shot of Clam Friendly Midas Blenny and it's Friendly neighbor clown the clown clown lol Fortress of fan worm Zoomed picture of fan worms Forgot what this Sps was called. Help Picture from standing up at the left side facing down Full tank shot Camera D3000, Tank Solana 34 gallon tank 20x20x20 Link to comment
kleankord Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 looks great. What's the spread on the slimline fixture? My foot print is similar to yours, but i was hoping to only buy 1. Do you know how much of the tank would be left in the dark? Link to comment
mkizz Posted May 27, 2011 Author Share Posted May 27, 2011 I ll post a picture later today with just 1 slim line in the middle vs 2 side by side. But when I tried just putting one, compared to 2 of course it was really dark looking. Regular slimline covers 20x20x20, so at most you will see couple cm at the edges at dark maybe. Also it depends what tank you have. Im also not sure what you mean by foot is smaller than mine, do you mean the part where it clamps onto the tank? If so I dont think that matters, slimline sells one with smaller and slim foot or fat foot like mine lol Link to comment
kleankord Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 thanks! that'd be great... my tank is 25" L x 18" W x 21. 5" H which is a similar footprint/size... but i was hoping to get away with just one.. your pic will really help me decide. Link to comment
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