Agreed on the Rossmont RX link, but not sure Rossmont or any other aquarium company works with Askoll as an OEM that is not under the Hagen umbrella. Royal Exclusiv and Vertex went a different route to get theirs.
Most reliable quality return pump?
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I've searched around and all I can find on this pump is Eheim site stating this is compacts successor, so I'd assume eheim may have made some improvements of their own hopefully.
I may have to guinea pig this one.
Algae Farmer
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Nice warranty but for $2500+?
For internal AC pumps I like Sicce pumps for reliability and price. Tunze is the same pump.
Had one running for like 4 years and never even cleaned it and it ran like new, do not do that. Years later it still works great.
For internal DC pumps I like Reef Octopus Varios for reliability and price.
There are other better pumps out there and some are more expensive but for the average person those will be pretty good.
By the way didn't Ehiem move part of their manufacturing to China in like 2012 or 2013? Some of their pumps started to have issues from China. I thought you could tell which were which by the cat# number?
Are those pumps still being made there and how is the reliability of those pumps? I have not heard much about that for a while..
I also agree two pumps is better than one.
Had one running for like 4 years and never even cleaned it and it ran like new, do not do that. Years later it still works great.
For internal DC pumps I like Reef Octopus Varios for reliability and price.
There are other better pumps out there and some are more expensive but for the average person those will be pretty good.
By the way didn't Ehiem move part of their manufacturing to China in like 2012 or 2013? Some of their pumps started to have issues from China. I thought you could tell which were which by the cat# number?
Are those pumps still being made there and how is the reliability of those pumps? I have not heard much about that for a while..
I also agree two pumps is better than one.
Potatohead
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It's actually not. The housing is the same, but that's it.
Potatohead
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spsick
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I’ve had a Tunze Silence 1073.040 for probably 7 years. I ran it for 2, cleaned it and put away for 3, and now have been running it on my current tank for 2 years. Never skipped a beat. Probably best money I’ve spent on any piece of reef equipment next to my dimmable Sunpower.
Eastlake
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Mag drive all day. Virtually bullet proof and in a pinch can be used for home defense then plugged back in to run your system lol. But in all seriousness mag drives are borderline indestructible
rockskimmerflow
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The two compact series are totally different. This 'new' compactON pump series is just a reboot of the old oem marineland utility pump models that went out of production years back. I actually think the new CompactON models are good pumps, possibly slightly better than the prior Compact+ series and are a tried and true design. I highly, highly doubt eheim made anything in the way of material improvements. They don't actually make the pumps. They likely just asked for the plastic to be made in their color of choice and their label printed and that's it. Not that I would care if Eheim didn't make any improvements - the old marineland utility pumps were solid units across the board. In fact, I still have an 8+ year old marineland 5000 pump running a client's reef tank. He refuses to replace it with a new model cause it still runs. And hey, I guess I can't blame him. Last time I opened it up for cleaning it was in perfect working order. The only pumps I'm aware of that are an eheim specific design spec and manufacture is the universal hobby series such as the 1260, 1262, etc.
rockskimmerflow
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Interesting. I went and looked at an old marineland utility pump I have running a customer tank and it's an askoll motor block so I'm not sure how marineland worked that deal or what. I'm not quite clear on exactly who owns Askoll's controlling interests and if Hagen has a monopoly on their oem aquarium units. Do you happen to know how Vertex and Royal Exclusiv sourced their blocks? I didn't know they weren't going directly through Askoll or Hagen.
Used pretty many back in the day and do not like them. I used them in my pond and aquarium. Loud and have start up issues.
Once I was sitting in my living room and the lights started dimming and I heard this sound coming out of my fish room. I run in there and black smoke and sparks are pouring out of the sump.
It put this black slick in my tank.. 30+ years reefing and the only major crash I ever had. Lost about a third of my coral.
The good news is I just got home. If it happened a hour ealier it probably would have burned the place down.
Your pretty lucky then. My lfs which is very knowable and stopped carring them because they were getting 8 out of 10 returned. I do think they are better than they used to be but I do not trust them and my tank are too valuable to trust to a cheap pump. Most important peice of equipment is the main pump when you have a sump.
MadCityReefer
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I’ve been in this hobby well over 20yrs and my go to is eheim 1260 series/hobby pump. Never not once had a issue. Still running the same on for 12yrs
Askoll is a huge company. They make pumps for everything. The pump that pumps the water from the majority of dishwashers and washing machines are Askoll. The aquarium market is just a part of what they do. They are an OEM in the Aquarium market. Since most companies are after high profit margin, they don't regularly go to Askoll to have their pumps made.
As for how Vertex and RE get their pumps, it's not my place to divulge that info on a public forum. They are however made with a shorter cord than the Laguna. So it's not just right off the shelf. It used to be really easy for companies to hide their product origins but the internet has really made it easy for us to compare similar products and come to very probable conclusions.
Japtastic
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I run 2x 15,000 lp/h Jecod/Jebao. No issues and silent.
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