Experience with reeflo pumps

I bet I probably had the worst experience from the good folks at Reeflo.
The first dart I got was so bad, loud, that when I called to complain the girl said, "I'm sorry sir, but you will have to call back when you are not on a construction site or wherever you are w/ all that machinery that is so loud I can't hear you"
I told her I was home, and that was the sound of my dart!LOL
So they replaced it(TY)
About 3 mo later the seal went bad, had to replace it(and Thankfully Marc Melev posted instructions on how to do it properly and much easier than Reeflo's lame instructions)
Then it gets much better.
My 180g developed a bad seam, had to replace it.
This is when my less than 1 year old dart decided to seize, so I couldn't test my plumbing, and that tank sat in the middle of my living room w/ all my livestock in Brutes, over a week.
Should not have been a big deal, but on sending me a replacement I received not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4 BAD DARTS IN A ROW!!(All came w/ cracked volutes on arrival)
Now here's the clincher, the girl literally told me she was getting really sick of hearing about my problems!
I simply said if you didn't keep sending me bad darts, I wouldn't keep calling, and w/ that she starts screaming at the top of her lungs that I'm yelling at her, and I hear people in the background all upset that I may be yelling at this girl(and I was not even close to yelling or saying what I really felt)
The owner gets on the phone, not happy, and as I start to tell him I didn't yell or even raise my voice to this girl he stops me mid sentence and says, "My time is too valuable to hear your problems, I'm coming to your house to meet you in person"
He tells me be home at 4:00pm and he'll bring a new dart, but wants to talk to me in person, and not in a happy voice.
I leave work early to meet him, wanting to mellow things out, only to find he came 4 hours earlier and left a dart on my porch.(Probably for the best)
This one worked, but in the course of this ordeal I lost a lot of livestock I had many years.
This is the reason I will never own one again, and I may never do a loop again unless I step to a huge tank that calls for one, and it will not be a Reeflo.
 
LOL< davo...I saw your post via email, and I didn't notice the screen name.

Seriously... Baldor motors are great and all....but if you can't keep the salt water from getting into them, then who the hell cares how good they are?!
 
Too bad noone else has developd a low-watt high-head pump. Iwakis use somuch power, but are so much better. Reeflo not my favorite people at all.
 
Yeeesh, those are some awful experiences. I've been toying with getting one of their blowhole pumps since they seem decent head pressure, good flow, and low wattage.

Gonna have to think a little harder about it, though they did ok by me in the past. I had a tarpon that had the seal crap out on it within a few months of new, it was just a trickle and they overnighted or 2nd dayed a new one to me. Then I had the Reeflo Orac skimmer with the Dart gold on it. Right upon startingit had some hideous noise from a bad bearing. They did send out a replacement no questions asked. But the frequency of problems, regardless of good or poor customer service, is a little concerning.

Daveocean, the owner telling you he is coming out there like that sounds pretty threatening. How ugly that could have become.....
 
Is there any other pumps that are worth the $ that will pump about 20ft of head that don't neeed to be rebuilt after 2days of use?
 
Just call me lucky, lucky...

Been running a Barracuda and Hammerhead on my 500G system for 30 months... the pumps last longer than the Double union "O" rings... just rotated a third Barracuda (my backup) to take one pump off line - only thing needed was a little cleaning...

LL
 
I've met davo... he can handle himself :)

LOL, I appreciate the vote of confidence, but I did spend that day at work wondering if things were going to get ugly, and I never want anything like that, I have enough attitudes to deal with on my construction sites.
Fish stuff should always be happy and fun.:fish1:
 
Ive got an 8 year old Dart, so old it has the clear blue wet end. Ive replaced the seal one time because of a minor slow drip, it was about 6 years into it.
I think you will find the Baldor or new Bluefin units have much fewer seal issues vs AO Smith. If you want to compare apples to apples ask people which motor they have when asking the age of a seal. If you stick with the current Bluefin or Gold models you should have years of good operation. The Bluefin has some extra bearing support for UPS drop kick bearing issues that often caused the problems with AO Smith and Baldors occasionally.

I currently have 3 darts on my system, return, CL, and Orca skimmer. Love every one of them.
 
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