Wet/Dry Pump Recommendations for a 240G

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Deepsouth

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I have a few fish tanks incoming and I need to order a good pump for my 75gallon wetdry. I can have one or two pumps per wetdry. What should I get for a 240gallon tank? Something quite would be preferred. Let me know what you think.

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Monty
 
If you can go external a reeflo dart would be overkill, but would also allow you to expand. They're extremely efficient, quiet, reliable, and have excellent support behind them.
 
I have a quiet one 5000 on a 125 and its silient. As long as it is not touching the side of the sump glass. The 5000 pushes 1300gph so 2 of them would be good. What kind of over flow are you using? If the tank is drilled, find out what kind of flow it can handle first. And also what fish are you housing? You can probably get away with a 3-4x turn over rate. But if you have river fish they will not be happy. I house payara and a few other predator characins that like current so I shoot for a higher turn over rate.
 
hybridtheoryd16;3018249; said:
I have a quiet one 5000 on a 125 and its silient. As long as it is not touching the side of the sump glass. The 5000 pushes 1300gph so 2 of them would be good. What kind of over flow are you using? If the tank is drilled, find out what kind of flow it can handle first. And also what fish are you housing? You can probably get away with a 3-4x turn over rate. But if you have river fish they will not be happy. I house payara and a few other predator characins that like current so I shoot for a higher turn over rate.
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I never used the 5000, but (to my surprise) the dart was quieter than the 4000s and obviously quieter than the 9000 (freighttrain1 9000). IME they're much more reliable as well. It's worth mentioning that they're rated @ 3600gph and around 140w.
 
I was leaning towards submersible pumps. They heat the water and tend to be a bit quiter. They are also good about eliminating possible leak areas. The aquarium will have one center overflow. Do you think two Eheim 1260 would be adequate on a 240?
 
I used to love submersibles until I started using external pumps. No matter what submersible I used I always had problems. I've never had a problem with external pumps (little giant and reeflo mainly). Anyway, to each their own. I can't recommend a good submersible because I haven't found one lol.
 
I would recommend the 4000, 5000 or 6000 Quiet Ones, but I wouldn't go any bigger. The design changes, and like Rally said, they get a LOT louder.

Mine are finally dying, but I got them used and they most likely had a really hard life before I got them
 
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