choosing a water pump?

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Acura_RSX

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im on a budget .. 225 gallon tank. looking at around 900+ gph pump. ive looked at mag's and quiet one's .. but cant find any on ebay or any online that will ship to canada so im looking to see what else i can find on ebay for a decent price. (and ships here) .. just ran into this one. anyone have opinions on it or can direct me to somewhere to buy a pump this size on a budget?

http://cgi.ebay.ca/1000-GPH-Water-P...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45eff32889
 
So what's your budget? $40? I think a pump is something that you should just save for and get what you need. b/c if it fails you have a ton of problems. and if you buy a cheap one you better find out if you can get replacement parts and how expensive they are. mags are cheap to fix and easy. so you should look into that before you go get the cheapest you can find.

and watch the for sale adds here b/c it doesn't take anything to ship out of country if someone in the states has one for sale.
 
koop171;3710166; said:
So what's your budget? $40? I think a pump is something that you should just save for and get what you need. b/c if it fails you have a ton of problems. and if you buy a cheap one you better find out if you can get replacement parts and how expensive they are. mags are cheap to fix and easy. so you should look into that before you go get the cheapest you can find.

and watch the for sale adds here b/c it doesn't take anything to ship out of country if someone in the states has one for sale.
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its not a $40 budget .. its that all of those prices you see have 40 and 50 dollar shipping rates on them. plus they are us prices. the quiet one, works out to be $120 CAD in the end. which is my budget .. i cant spend much more then that.

and the first two are cheaper type but the quiet one ive heard good things about .. good brand name, right gph .. and just under my budget. whats everyones opinion on this pump? (the third one)
 
I have a few quiet one 3000s in service for a few years now and they have been reliable for me.
 
Quiet Ones are great pumps when looking at the smaller versions. I've heard complaints about the larger ones (9000 & up) being noisy and failing. But I'm hard pressed to hear bad things about any of the smaller ones.(6000 & down)
 
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