JUWEL Rio and Lido LED Aquariums - Grey - 120L

JUWEL Rio and Lido LED Aquariums - Grey is the grey finish option across several JUWEL Rio and Lido LED aquarium sizes, from 120 to 240 litres, with the size chosen on this page.

Key Features

• Grey, across five sizes: 120, 125, 180, 200 and 240 litres nominal. The 120 and 200 are Lido models and the 125, 180 and 240 are Rio models, so the footprints differ between them.
• Supplied as a working set: Tank, hood with LED lighting, Bioflow internal filter and a heater. Ask us to confirm the carton contents for the size you choose.
• LED rather than fluorescent: Dearer to buy and then no tubes to replace every year, and it runs cooler, which counts for more in this climate than in Europe.
• The internal Bioflow filter: Built into a corner of the tank, so there is no external plumbing to leak and the media are JUWEL parts we stock separately.

Why This Listing Covers Several Sizes

• This is a single listing carrying more than one size, so pick the size on the page rather than assuming the price at the top applies to all of them.
• The sizes on it span two different JUWEL ranges, the Rio and the Lido, which have different footprints. If you are also buying a cabinet, tell us the exact size you picked and we will match it rather than going by the range name.
• Each of these sizes also exists as its own listing in the other finishes. Ask us if you want to compare, or if you want grey in a size that is not offered here.

What It Weighs When It Is Full

• Water weighs a kilogram a litre, so a 240 litre aquarium carries about 240 kg of water before the glass, the substrate and the rocks. Put it on the matching JUWEL cabinet or on a stand engineered for the load, never on a sideboard or a shelf that merely looks sturdy.
• The base has to be supported across its whole area and it has to be dead level. Glass cracks from a point load or a twist rather than from a knock, so shim the cabinet feet and check it with a spirit level before a drop of water goes in.
• Decide where it lives before you fill it. A full aquarium cannot be moved, nudged or straightened, and emptying one to shift it 20 cm is a long afternoon.

Starting It Up

• A new aquarium is not ready for a full load of fish. The filter needs four to six weeks to grow the bacteria that process ammonia, and stocking it on day one is the commonest way a first tank goes wrong. A bacterial starter such as JUWEL bioBoost shortens that wait; it does not remove it.
• Get a test kit for ammonia, nitrite and nitrate and use it. Until nitrite reads zero consistently the tank is still cycling, whatever the water looks like.
• Dubai tap water is largely desalinated and comes out soft and low in minerals. That suits plants and soft-water fish, and it does not suit livebearers or African cichlids without remineralising first. Ask us and we will tell you what to add.

Keeping It Cool Through The Summer

• In most of the world an aquarium needs heating. Here the problem runs the other way for much of the year, and a tank in a room sitting at 30 degrees will drift above where most tropical fish are comfortable.
• Warm water holds less oxygen, so the first move is more surface movement. A surface skimmer or an air stone does more on a hot afternoon than anything else you can buy. Running the lights through the cooler part of the day helps too.
• If the room is air conditioned the tank will track it, which is usually the whole answer in a Dubai flat. Where it is not, ask us about fans and chillers before the summer rather than during it.

Good To Know

• Five nominal sizes on this listing: 120, 125, 180, 200 and 240 litres.
• Ask us for the exact external dimensions of the size you want before you order a cabinet or measure a space.
• The matching grey SBX cabinets are a separate listing, which also covers several sizes.
• Not a marine set as supplied.
• Tell us the size and we will confirm availability, dimensions and the right cabinet together before anything is dispatched.