Forums are great to share opinions so I wanted to take a moment to share my experience with sicce ‘silent’ pumps in the UK.
The first 1.0 I bought online rattled like crazy. I know vibrations can stress fish so not being keen on this I bought another 1.0 from my LFS.
Same problem. Presumed they all came like this.
8 month later, had enough of the noise. Found out they weren’t meant to be this loud and bought another 1.0 from different online retailer. Same problem!
About a month ago I had the idea to buy a 0.5 from my LFS to see if this would make a difference and sacrifice power. and now yesterday- same problem ! I have cleaned them all through this regularly.
And made sure of no bubbles like the online retailers recommended. To simply wrap this up I think they are naff, and need a better recommendation for the fluval spec / Evo .
The first 1.0 I bought online rattled like crazy. I know vibrations can stress fish so not being keen on this I bought another 1.0 from my LFS.
Same problem. Presumed they all came like this.
8 month later, had enough of the noise. Found out they weren’t meant to be this loud and bought another 1.0 from different online retailer. Same problem!
About a month ago I had the idea to buy a 0.5 from my LFS to see if this would make a difference and sacrifice power. and now yesterday- same problem ! I have cleaned them all through this regularly.
And made sure of no bubbles like the online retailers recommended. To simply wrap this up I think they are naff, and need a better recommendation for the fluval spec / Evo .