Toyota/Lexus of Return Pumps? - Poll

[rtparty]

I’m a big fan of Sicce: I’ve bought many and own a few now, but the wireless app on those SDC’s is a fail. I ended up selling or trashing 3

I own 4 Neptune COR 2ea (15& 30 or whatever)
I’m happy with them so far
Edit: @208reef …why wasn’t Neptune in the list? unpopular?

Why was the app a fail? Worked for me on 3 different pumps over 5 years just fine. It’s a return pump. Set the percentage and let it run.

Mine were also silent the whole time. My 6.0 was on my 120 for 2.5 years and I cleaned it once or twice. Never skipped a beat. I put 2 of the 7.0s on my 250 and in 2 years, cleaned each pump once.

After watching the Neptune pumps here on the forum and in multiple FB groups, I wouldn’t touch them. They don’t have great reliability from what I can see

 

[Ironwill723]

Iwaki or panworld

 

[VintageReefer]

The Danner mag drive pumps are pure machines. Most of the people in the hobby right now have probably never heard of them before. This was a standard however many years ago unless you went with some big external return pump. They run forever with no maintenance.

Hated my mag 7. Bought two and both lasted less than 3 years. Swollen magnets

 

[rhaetuluscrenatus]

My Iwaki pumps lasted the entire time my tank was up (20 years).

Iwaki is solid but the power it consumps is huge to compare with modern pumps.

 

[X-37B]

No Tunze on the list?
I have ran them, ac version, for years with no issues. I have some 15+ year old powerheads that still work well.
Tunze return pumps are Sicce pumps made for Tunze.
Roger told me Tunze is comming out with their own return pump soon.
Their new powerheads have 5 year warrenty too.
Sicce pumps power my carx and my ozone reactor.

 

[Doctorgori]

Why was the app a fail? Worked for me on 3 different pumps over 5 years just fine. It’s a return pump. Set the percentage and let it run.

Mine were also silent the whole time. My 6.0 was on my 120 for 2.5 years and I cleaned it once or twice. Never skipped a beat. I put 2 of the 7.0s on my 250 and in 2 years, cleaned each pump once.

After watching the Neptune pumps here on the forum and in multiple FB groups, I wouldn’t touch them. They don’t have great reliability from what I can see

yeah for whatever reason mine kept dropping the connection, return pumps should be fire and forget but wasn’t reliable after power fails ,,, pump would work but you couldn’t connect: a pita if you needed feed mode to
work, a must for seahorses et

I didn’t like that “ControlAll” app or whatever… but yeah a minor deal for a return pump

Neptune COR: Ive had 1 of 4 fail, agree not exactly a stellar MTBF but beast when working (but you can apply that thinking anywhere)

 

[areefer01]

I’m a big fan of Sicce: I’ve bought many and own a few now, but the wireless app on those SDC’s is a fail. I ended up selling or trashing 3

I own 4 Neptune COR 2ea (15& 30 or whatever)
I’m happy with them so far
Edit: @208reef …why wasn’t Neptune in the list? unpopular?

I run 2 x Cor 15's and 1 x Cor 20. They are solid pumps. I even have 1 spare so I can rotate them for cleaning. Super easy to turn off, disconnect, swap, and turn back on. Clean as my day allows. Repeat. I'm happy with them.

Just for fun I do have a RD3 that I was planning on using for an upcoming upgrade. However RE has since discontinued this pump and I do not have a spare. Anyway I think in another post I mentioned that in some cases there is a noticeable difference in build quality and/or size. Does not always equate to better but wanted to show the difference.

Also one could take the Cor body which is tick, and heavy, and compare it to say a Jeabo or Sicce.

 

[14 foot reef]

The MRC line of pumps is hands down the absolute GOLD STANDARD in AC pumps.
I was a reeflo customer for 20 years until I met Raj and he introduced me to MRC

 

[Ironwill723]

No Tunze on the list?
I have ran them, ac version, for years with no issues. I have some 15+ year old powerheads that still work well.
Tunze return pumps are Sicce pumps made for Tunze.
Roger told me Tunze is comming out with their own return pump soon.
Their new powerheads have 5 year warrenty too.
Sicce pumps power my carx and my ozone reactor.

@X-37B Did he have an ETA on the new pump? AC or DC? Any other info?

 

[rhaetuluscrenatus]

I run 2 x Cor 15's and 1 x Cor 20. They are solid pumps. I even have 1 spare so I can rotate them for cleaning. Super easy to turn off, disconnect, swap, and turn back on. Clean as my day allows. Repeat. I'm happy with them.

Just for fun I do have a RD3 that I was planning on using for an upcoming upgrade. However RE has since discontinued this pump and I do not have a spare. Anyway I think in another post I mentioned that in some cases there is a noticeable difference in build quality and/or size. Does not always equate to better but wanted to show the difference.

Also one could take the Cor body which is tick, and heavy, and compare it to say a Jeabo or Sicce.

I'm sorry but these are two bad pumps in my list, both is too weak and unreliable, Red Dragon 3 has bad adapter/ controller, COR has cheap component as my technical view,

 

[rhaetuluscrenatus]

No Tunze on the list?
I have ran them, ac version, for years with no issues. I have some 15+ year old powerheads that still work well.
Tunze return pumps are Sicce pumps made for Tunze.
Roger told me Tunze is comming out with their own return pump soon.
Their new powerheads have 5 year warrenty too.
Sicce pumps power my carx and my ozone reactor.

Tunze is manufactured by Sicce as i believe so they're the same, using the Tunze for waste water of my house for 7 years and still work as normal, Tunze and Sicce is unbeatable of durability.

 

[Battlecorals]

Iwaki and Eheim have never let me down.

Iwaki has my vote too.

 

[Gungo]

With the price of a big name pump you could easily buy 4-5 Jebao/jecod and they will probably last more than your time in the hobby lol. Have friends running jebao return pumps for almost 10 years. and I'm using them since 2017.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Iwaki is solid but the power it consumps is huge to compare with modern pumps.

That is absolutely true. My skimmer alone used an Iwaki 55RLT, which took close to 250 watts.

 

[PharmrJohn]

I chose Syncra DC as I'm gonna have two of those as returns. My second choice was RO as I'll have one powering my skimmer and Mag as I used to have one (Mag9.5) running my old school skimmer 15 years back. That Mag rocked!

 

[208reef]

My Iwaki pumps lasted the entire time my tank was up (20 years).

Not going to lie, I love the old school hum of an Iwaki pump. They were out of my price reach back in the day when they were the standard.

 

[Devaji]

I voted for jebao/jecod they have been very reliable for me.
the quite
dont cost and arm and leg.

but I hear good things about abyzz pumps but dang.... they really are an arm & leg.

 

[encrustingacro]

Reliable - may not have every bell and whistle, but consistently does what it's supposed to do with a basic level of maintenance.

Oh, then I would say the regular Sicce Syncra.

 

[areefer01]

I'm sorry but these are two bad pumps in my list, both is too weak and unreliable, Red Dragon 3 has bad adapter/ controller, COR has cheap component as my technical view,

Good thing I didn't ask for your technical opinion when I purchased them back in 2017. Seven years so far knock on wood. The RD3 is also working well. Just goes to show you how the same pieces of equipment work different between hobbyist.

 

[jonelder68]

Reliable - may not have every bell and whistle, but consistently does what it's supposed to do with a basic level of maintenance.

Maybe early 2000’s and older. Toyota along with every other manufacturer build nothing but junk lately. But hey keeps me busy at least