Re: NANFA-- water pumps

Todd Crail (farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com)
Wed, 22 Jan 2003 17:27:26 -0500

Ahhh these thingies... This is Jimmy Chen's product that he was working on
awhile back?

Well I guess I know how I'm gonna circulate my 125 now. One should be just
plenty of water volume for the riffle area. I was not looking forward to
Rio generated electric bills again ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane Graber" <SGraber_at_sauder.com>

> One pump I really like for recirculating (better than powerheads) and I
> think might have a lot of application in simulating riffles or situations
> where you want to move a large volume of water around in a tank would be a
> Reeftec pump: http://www.reeftec.com/ Here's an article write-up on the
> product:
>
> Propeller Pumps in the Aquarium
> Product Review by Richard Harker
> http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/june2002/review.htm
>
> For only 35 watts of energy used you can get a *lot* of flow from these
> babies. I was skeptical until I actually broke down and bought one of
them.
> I now personally have two that are going on an upcoming reef tank, but I'm
> also thinking about putting one or two of these on my upcoming 125 native
> tank. I need to get one of these over to Todd's place just to show him
what
> they can do for water current. :)
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