ATB Flowstar 1500 arrived today.

Blackhawk Fan · Jul 3, 2009

My new pump arrived today. I was dancing when I saw another ATB shirt in the box with it.
I'm going to have to buy another ATB product. My wife is trying to steal this one from me... :lol:
I can't wait to get moved and set all my toys up.

evad1 · Jul 3, 2009

great pump i have been running one for awhile now...

poolkeeper1 · Jul 3, 2009

Is that for a return, Or skimmer? Either way nice!

Blackhawk Fan · Jul 4, 2009

poolkeeper,It's a return pump. 1500gph@90w.

Blackhawk Fan · Jul 4, 2009

evad1,
I saw you have the media reactors. I don't run GFO's, but do run carbon.
How much carbon does the small reactor roughly hold?

reefknight · Jul 9, 2009

Nice pump! I am looking at that as the return pump for my new tank, whenever I get it.

GSMguy · Aug 5, 2009

mine is still just sitting on my shelf, but now that i have the new sump i can install it.

Letsgotothezoo · Aug 5, 2009

I agreed it's a nice pump.

But, 90 Watt is a lot of electricity.

Don't you consider Red Dragon pump with 1/3 less electricity ?:wink:

GSMguy · Aug 5, 2009

the 90w rating is from the manufacturer and the red dragon pump is from the same manufacturer, both are laguna 1500 pumps with unions and stands put on them, the wattage varies depending on head-pressure and friction but is usually around 57w just like the RD :) At 1/3 the price ;).

the bigger models have custom volutes and some of the RD ones have cooling loops.

GSMguy · Aug 5, 2009

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14498482#post14498482 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rwinfrey
the flowstar is the way to go with back pressure it will probably only be running at 50 to 60 watts.I put my hand in front of mine and it drops right down to 65 watts:D

here is a quote from RC regarding wattage.

Paul_N · Aug 5, 2009

Gotta post some feed back after you have it setup. I think this is my next return pump.

eggie · Aug 6, 2009

I wonder if primium acuatic could do a test between both and test the watts for us to see if they are actually the same

GSMguy · Aug 6, 2009

It would be cool if a vendor did that, unfortunetly premium does not carry ATB they sold a few econos that they got thru coralvue but coralvue isn't selling the ATB line anymore.