View Full Version : anyone with experience with those TINY JBJ tanks?
I was looking at those ~1g bow shaped JBJ tanks....was thinking about an ultra nano planted tank with these.
Anyone have any experience with them?
OrionGirl
07-28-2003, 4:19 PM
Smallest tank I have is a 2.5. Biggest problem I had was keeping the durned thing from overheating. If the light was on for more than about 6 hours (12 watts of light), the tank would climb to about 86, and even plants think that's too hot. I gave up on it and moved up to a 6 for the plants and fish.
eventhough it is a horrible picture, here is what I am talking about. I have seen it displayed in the LFS (which looked awesome BTW...just curious if others had any experience with it.
http://www.jbjlighting.com/rel_prod_mini_tank.html
tricksterpup
07-28-2003, 5:29 PM
A LFS had these on display for about a month, thought it was cool until they had problems with the plants and fish. Small bowls like this are easily over heated as OG stated. I think it would be cheaper if you went to walmart and got their Eclipse knock off (which is still made by marine land). I have the 2.5 gal tank and their 5, which has their own fiilters.
hmmm.. saw their biotop tanks, looks nice but i wish they had better pictures of those tanks. Would be interesting competition for marine land in that mini tank realm.
jim
revfred
07-28-2003, 5:35 PM
Somewhere I saw mini-flurorescent lights for these mini-tanks. I'm interested in them myself and have been trying to get information about where to buy them.
Thanks for the feedback guys.
...hmmm..maybe I need to think about getting the JBJ nano cube.
anyone with direct experience with it?
I have a ~2g Azoo tank on my desk at work, looks similar to that. I have 2 Sparkling Gouramis, a Yamato Numa Ebi shrimp and a snail(ramshorn?) and several plants. I have the Azoo power filter and 7w PC fluorescent light for it also and a 30w under counter light above helps some. I ran it will no filter for a while and did 10% water changes daily but I go tired of that and added the power filter and now I change 2 liters of water once a week. Rather than being too hot I have found this tank stays a little cool, 70-74f but the fish seems to have adjusted and don't mind. The hardest thing is to not over feed as the two littles fellows don't eat much. Everyone in the tank seems healthy and I really haven't had any problems with the tank and the dirty water from changes makes the potted plant on my desk very green ;-)
Here is a picture...
http://adkins.dynip.com/media/aquaria-2gallon-28-apr-2003.jpg. I've added some Wisteria and since the Dwarf Hairgrass is slowly dying off I'm trying some Pearl Grass for the front of the tank. Keep in mind that it is an open top tank so no jumpers.
I also have a Eclipse System 3 on my desk and it takes up about the same amount of space and does give you more options with the additional space and closed lid.
Alex
i bought one of these as a present for a friend that was keeping a betta in a vase..... biggest complaint? too small!
http://www.petsmart.com/fish/shopping/aquariums%5F%5F%5Fbowls/small%5Ftanks/products/product%5F854.shtml
i would go bigger than 1g
oh...this is not my only tank. I already have a much larger one. I was just thinking about an ultra nano tank with maybe a guppy or two and some cherry shrimp. This would be at my computer desk.