High Head Pressure Pump Rec?

[Littlepalm173]

Hey there,

New to this forum. Building a new display tank, with the sump in the basement and preplumbed into the wall. Will have ~14' vertical lift and ~8 feet horizontal. Looking at likely doing a 120 gallong 4x2x2foot tank.

I have a Panworld 150PS that I have connected to my waterchanging station.

• Max Flow: 1100 GPH
• Max Head: 28 Ft
• 1” Inlet(MPT)/ 1” Outlet(MPT)
• 180 watts

What pumps would you guys recommend? What flow rates?

There seems to be two frames of thought-- low flow, or high flow....

Cheers!

John

 

[GoVols]

Hey there,

New to this forum. Building a new display tank, with the sump in the basement and preplumbed into the wall. Will have ~14' vertical lift and ~8 feet horizontal. Looking at likely doing a 120 gallong 4x2x2foot tank.

I have a Panworld 150PS that I have connected to my waterchanging station.

• Max Flow: 1100 GPH
• Max Head: 28 Ft
• 1” Inlet(MPT)/ 1” Outlet(MPT)
• 180 watts

What pumps would you guys recommend? What flow rates?

There seems to be two frames of thought-- low flow, or high flow....

Cheers!

John

Welcome to Reef 2 Reef, John

Are you talking about the amount of water that your going to run thru your filtration per hour?

 

[Muttley000]

Welcome! Sump size may be a factor in this. Also will you run anything else off of the return like reactors? I really like iwaki pumps when you have head pressure to overcome, but a little more info would be needed to size it.

 

[GoVols]

Welcome! Sump size may be a factor in this. Also will you run anything else off of the return like reactors? I really like iwaki pumps when you have head pressure to overcome, but a little more info would be needed to size it.

You know,
I did a custom (Oceanic Systems) build in 1995.
Bought a Jap made Iwaki and it ran off and on until 2016.

You just can't beat them for externals.

 

[biecacka]

Iwaki makes great pumps!

Corey

 

[ca1ore]

Not unusual to get 20 years of continuous (as opposed to continual) service from an Iwaki. I'm over 10 on a couple of panworld as well. PW150 will deliver 500-600 against 14' of head pressure (as long as you retain sensible pipe diameters). More than enough for a 120.