Water changes after back surgery - Need a pump recommendation

[Tmm87]

Hello,

I had back surgery about a week ago. I had been using an old return pump to pump water from mixing bucket to the tank. When I went to do my water change last night I found my pump was dead. Buckets can roll, but I found that pushing the full bucket (even on wheels) was a bit much right now.

Needless to say, water change did not happen considering I'm not supposed to be lifting more than about 5lbs for the next few weeks at least.

What is a relatively cheap pump that you guys can recommend that has a decent amount of head pressure? Ideally I'd like to be able to just run my hose from the laundry room where my mixing bucket lives to the tank. Ideally I'd like to not need to move the mixing bucket. This would put it at a 20-25ft run of hose and then the one tank sits 4ft off the floor, the other would be going right into the sump which is only about 18" from floor to top edge. I can cut this in half by moving the bucket before water change, filling the bucket (with the same pump), mixing, then doing the water change.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Lloyd Williams]

I have a number of lower body disabilities due to military, to include lower back issues/slipped disc. I bought a fluval fx4 and haven’t lifted a bucket since. It drains and fills conveniently plus extra filtration.

 

[Tmm87]

I have a number of lower body disabilities due to military, to include lower back issues/slipped disc. I bought a fluval fx4 and haven’t lifted a bucket since. It drains and fills conveniently plus extra filtration.

I'm familiar with those filters, but that's a little more than I was looking to spend. Plus it's not achieving what I'm after. The larger tank runs a sump, smaller tank is run off a HOB. Just after a return pump that can handle the run of hose as well as lift the water up that 4ft on the smaller tank.

Thank you for the reply and for your service.

 

[Lloyd Williams]

Thank you sir. I’ll check a few other sources also. But it will be after work.

 

[reacclimating 2 the hobby]

Look up the Jecod pumps... they are relatively cheap and I've had good luck pumping water up about 12ft and over about 25ft with the 15000 model. You probably won't need that large. Hopefully you heal up quickly.

 

[joec]

Maybe one of these, the 1200 might work. I use the 800 to do water changes

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/pump...umps/lifegard.html?scrollTo=402.7272644042969

 

[Tmm87]

Look up the Jecod pumps... they are relatively cheap and I've had good luck pumping water up about 12ft and over about 25ft with the 15000 model. You probably won't need that large. Hopefully you heal up quickly.

Maybe one of these, the 1200 might work. I use the 800 to do water changes

https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/pump...umps/lifegard.html?scrollTo=402.7272644042969

I'll look into both of these. Thank you!

 

[cracker]

I'd like to follow Loyd. I recently fell ill & looking for ideas to work around these holdups .

 

[Lloyd Williams]

I'd like to follow Loyd. I recently fell ill & looking for ideas to work around these holdups .

I’m all about shortcuts that save my body. Anything to make it easier to change 10-15 gallons of water every week or so is alright with me. A friend in LARC actually built a system for one of his maintenance accounts that swaps 75 gallons with a turn of two ball valves!