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Your current favorite pump brand. Come back and recast your vote as often as needed.
Aquapro 11%  11%  [ 8 ]
Ebara 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Grundfos 3%  3%  [ 2 ]
Jebao 21%  21%  [ 15 ]
Laguna 29%  29%  [ 20 ]
Messner 1%  1%  [ 1 ]
Oase 4%  4%  [ 3 ]
Tetra 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Other 23%  23%  [ 16 ]
Dissatisfied with my last pump, still forming an opinion on my new pump 7%  7%  [ 5 ]
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Slowboat
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Thanks I will check them out Gunagulla.
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I've had some good luck with the red dragon pump from aquariumwholesales - 10k lph and 85w - good head. Moves heaps of water.
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Thanks Jayendra, i could not find a pump curve for those red dragons? the pictures I found looked like an in line pump, does yours have an inlet strainer?

I am thinking about the Pondmate 15000 DWP, yea Chinese made but most things are these days.

rated at 11700 lph @ 2m head, and sells for $280 from creative pumps.
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250w - woah !!!
You can have in the fish tank - I just connected 40mm pipe running along the bottom with holes along it - like an SLI :)
2m fine :) 140$ :)
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I have a big FT! and in this cold weather its a pain in the butt to get in to retrieve broken pumps.

the pump which failed was 550W and it pumped tons of water to the:- 4 - 1.2x2.4 GB's, swirl filter and spare run off back to the FT.

Soon I will have an extra 2 GB's so I need to have pumping capacity for them.

the slotted pipe for the pump suction sounds good but I'm my yabbies would find a way into it, they get into anywhere looking for a home. ;)
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How long have you had yours Jay? That's really low wattage! Couldn't find a curve for it on their website though?
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Mines been running since this time last year I think - the barrels in the greenhouse thread. Robbob had one die though.
I just can't justify the electricity cost of constant flood for a small system like mine. I have a backup pump ready to go (sump pump ALKO 350w 8k lph)
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earthbound wrote:
Sleepe wrote:
If anyone is interested there are a couple of companies selling Mebner discontinued pumps at very good prices. These are German made pumps and they have reduced the warranty from 2 years to 3 months.



I wouldn;t think thats a good sign, dropping the warranty to 3 months? True there may be many reasons they have done it, but just makes alarm bells go off in my mind...

And yes, ebay shops are just no good for Aussie businesses that provide good service from a shop front, you can't compete on price and 99% of people chopping on ebay will go for lower price every time.


2 years 2 months 24/7 and it hasn't been cleaned yet. :)
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Dam my pump failed, I assume it was an electrical fault because it would trip the RCD took it out and checked for jammed impellers etc and it seemed ok put it back and it ran for a little while then the RCD tripped again. eventually I found the receipt and took it back to B... they didn't have the same model available so I got an ozito clean/dirty water pump. When I read the data sheet it said "possible oil pollution from the internal lubricant"! So I took it back.

the little Shott 9000 is doing the job for now. Glad I got the cam-lock couplings and new manifold in, makes swapping pumps a lot easier.

So now to find a pump that can do 8000L/hr@2m head. any ideas?


lowarra GT series.

Ebara - best one series (?)

I own a Lowarra GT3 and can attest they are good pumps.
i did have one die, they warrantied it while out of warranty.
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wow, this thread is huge. Where the reader's Digest version? hehehe
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Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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Buy a Laguna :D
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Price vs wattage seem to be interesting - I also like the idea of buying from a local farm supply's as they will have the know how and spare parts hopefully
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I was also considering price/wattage/noise as this system is in a small greenhouse attached to our living-room. "Laguna?"
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jayendra wrote:
I've had some good luck with the red dragon pump from aquariumwholesales - 10k lph and 85w - good head. Moves heaps of water.


Have you measured the watts, flow and head?
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Hi all I couldn't read thru all 50 pages but want to no if these pumps are okJebao Newest Energy-Saving Turtle Pumps 3500 to 10000L/H -10M Cable+1 Yr Wty On e bay Brisbane company selling them
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