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Good point!They’re clunky, aesthetically ugly and mostly bettered by modern variable flow pumps ….
Let us know what you find out. I was looking into those German ones as well.I emailed another company out of Germany called Ocean motion to see if they shipped to the U.S., but no answer yet. They are cheaper than the Sea Sweep
Because they cant make it for 30 bucks so they can sell it for 500 bucks.As title states... I'm surprised more companies are not making anything to compete with this product. It seems like a really great solution to eliminating dead spots.
On large tanks, a sea sweep is amazing. Few have tanks this big. Imagine a Tunze 6200 or MP60 that is rotated back and forth - magnets on the glass cannot do this. They can really provide flow and then have some time before the blast comes again.
They do seem to last a long time. I have some that are at least 20 years old and work as well as they did when new. I don't use them right now, but you have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.
Let's see,
Sea Swirl is 400+
You've got a couple variants of pump head wavemakers that are considerably cheaper, think it was hydor that originally came out with one.
Then there's the VCA random flow generator.
^These are all cheaper and less obtrusive than the Sea Swirl...
Then we have the various new powerheads with controllers and of course Gyre variants, which all allow more placement options and thus more control/influence around design within the general $ range.
...my guess would be that it's seen as a more limited market considering other various options.
OceanMotion is not the same company as Oceans Motions. The former is a powerhead/flow pump moving device (rather like the Sea Sweep). The Sea Swirl is a flow diverter device - I used them in the 90's. I don't recall any competitive units.I have old ocean motions since the 90s . They still work. But modern wavepumps kinda make them obsolete
OceanMotion is not the same company as Oceans Motions. The former is a powerhead/flow pump moving device (rather like the Sea Sweep). The Sea Swirl is a flow diverter device - I used them in the 90's. I don't recall any competitive units.
They are both still available, sea sweep rotates powerheads back and forth about 90°. The sea swirl rotates your return nozzle back and forth 90°.“Sea Sweep” and the newer version is the “Sea Swirl?”