New return pump suggestions

[CoralBandit]

Hello everyone, I once again have to move my 90g :sad:. Its been moved twice, once from orlando to tampa and then from tampa to sarasota, and now the doozy from sarasota to ft. lauderdale (3hrs drive) the others were a 1 hour drive and everything was fine and dandy.

I currently have an external pump, Gen x 40 which I assume does ~1000gph ish @ 5 ft head pressure. B/c i have been using it for about 3 years and its starting to make a little noise I think its wise to chuck it and grab a new one.

However, I want to convert back to an internal for several reasons. My aim is to stay around 1000gph @ 5 ft (one pipe) and be really really quiet. would like to spend ~$200 so no red dragons for me. Here are 3 i've found so far does anyone have any + or - experiences with any of them.

Eheim compact 5000 - $170
~1300gph

Sicce Syncra Water Pump - $188
Model 5.0, 1,321 GPH

Water Blaster HY 5000 - $209
Circulating Water Pump - 1300gph

Thanks R2R! :wink:

 

[poppafish29]

You can't go wrong with Eheim

 

[nater]

if it was me , i would have gone with an atb flow star , but the price for them just went up a couple days ago :(

 

[CoralBandit]

atb is $219 thats not out of the question, are they the best bang for the $? why?

 

[CoralBandit]

Bump

 

[Troylee]

Flow Star pumps are awesome very low wattage use, dead silent "askoll aka red dragon" need I say more....

 

[CoralBandit]

thought so it looked liked the same design, thanks everyone looks like il be picking up a flow star :xd:

 

[Troylee]

Wise choice... There awesome!!!! My flowstar 3200 only draws 45 watts that's incredible considering a dart runs at 135 with some heat to get the same flow....

 

[CoralBandit]

I only need the 1500 so i ordered it,
I know the design is slightly different then the larger models and uses actually 5 watts more then the 1800 but my drain can only handle so much and i wasnt going to pay $400+ dollars. I hope this model at least has the same quality as the larger ones being a flow star and all.

 

[caudill187]

Nice pump. Good choice.