Oh it's an extreme pain in the butt. Need to use needle noses on a fitting that's already glued shut from all the junk build up LOLSame definitely haven't taken mine out
Very nice!!!
Got this acro over a year ago. This is Jared's bubbleyum finally started branching. Also pickedup a brown frag of hungs rainbow. Will post a photo shortly just to show it getting color to it withen a 2 week period.
Got this acro over a year ago. This is Jared's bubbleyum finally started branching. Also pickedup a brown frag of hungs rainbow. Will post a photo shortly just to show it getting color to it withen a 2 week period.
I really like the cor pump, when I baited my best friend into the hobby I had gotten to work with it. Just cleaned it 3 days ago, and it works fine. July will be a year of that cor20 running without a single hiccup. Maybe I'll just upgrade to one of them
Jebao powerheads and they're return pumps work just as good as any other aquarium marketed pump. The wave makers are just so big and bulky but then again the few others I've tryed were pretty large. As of now I just have a wav pump and the new gyre 350. Always good to have some jebao pumps sitting as a backup just incase something happens.
The abyzz pump was originally my next return pump purchase, plus it has that large warranty, I believe 5 years?
I traded a homewrecker chunk for it so I'll keep it. If I payed for it, wouldve been a return since I've only had it for a week.
It's actually 10 years. Even better!
So I'll start off by saying I do not like ecotech pumps. I've used mp40s in the past and had 2 horrible instances with customer service over 2 westside's rusting withen 6 months of having them. With the hefty price tag, I'd assume a better outcome with their products, compared to anyone else. That had giving me a bad taste in my mouth about buying ecotech products so I went the cheaper route with jebao powerheads and return pumps. I've never ever cleaned my jebao return pump since September 2015. I have 3 backups, and just slacked on maintenance with the return pump. It still runs like a beast, getting it cleaned up to hard plumb my rodi container.
Fast forward, someone had came out here from Hong Kong with the same factory made "non branded" vectra in black. Couldn't help but admire the pump so I figured I'd shoot my shot on getting a l1 for aesthetics, and control ability.
I am not at all happy with this pump. have an extreme amount of back flow, the heat comming from the pump is just ridiculous. Basically dont need a heater anymore just because of the heat this thing throws off. Although it's not a big deal, I'd just expect better then a 500 dollar return pump, that litterally 90% of the hobby runs. If theres going to be problems out of the box, its going right back into the box, or just going to mix salt instead of using the jebao.
Do you guys like the vectra? Has it ever failed, or jammed on you guys? I've seen 2 melted vectras before, and I'm starting to think of pulling this pump as soon as I can before issues start to arise. My temperature is already higher then usual.
This is not the version 2
One of my buddys friends came out here on buisness, basically for a while now I've been looking into Malaysian corals and am trying to properly buy some stuff the second the opportunity arises. He brought the sickest looking vectra in black, same parts except the housing was a different material. The controller was based on wattage, and had some other options that I never really payed more attention to.
