Lesson learned

[ggsteve]

I just rearranged my sump to fit an old Ehiem 1060 pump I found in the basement. I had been running a $23 Chinese pump that I bought new about 4 months ago. Last week the Chinese pump became unreliable upon startup. I would have to unplug it and plug it in again several times, or whack it in the side to get it to spin. Not good if a power interruption were to occur while I wasn't around. The Ehiem moves a little more water, and at 20+ years old it still starts up every time, but it is louder. The Chinese pump had silence and a smaller footprint on it's side, and it was 1/5th the cost of an Ehiem, but clearly it won't be running in 20 years.

 

[oscarinw]

I currently use a Rio plus pump and my take is that those are quite under-rated. Mine has been reliable, silent (or at least not noisy), powerful and cheap...
Glad to hear your eheim is taking care of the issue...

 

[ggsteve]

I have a Rio 2500 I tried on this tank. Boy does that thing move a lot of water in a small package. It was so powerful it was causing siphoning noise in my Durso drain. The Ehiem is like Goldilocks, not too little, not too much, just right. Any ideas about silencing vibration? Right now it is hard plastic pump housing on hard plastic sump.