Quite one V/Mag drive

[Steve_B]

I ran this topic in the reef forum and it will be on the 2nd page in about 2 minutes, with what I suspect will have no responses. I thought maybe you fish only guys, like myself may have some input.

This is the question Iââ"šÂ¬Ã¢"žÂ¢m trying for an answer:

I'm considering either the Quiet one 9000 or the Mag drive MD24. They both move water at around 2,400GPH. My question is, which one is quieter and creates less heat than the other? Does anybody have experience with these? The price difference is of no concern; I just want the one that is superior to the other in both respects. I will be using this in the sump of my wet/dry,
circulating water at about 1' head pressure through my modular filters and the water will go back into the sump. I have 2 Gorman Rupp pumps moving the water back into the tank at 3,000 GPH, in my 225 tank.

Thanks in advance,

Steve
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[swegyptian]

I would assume that heat would be proportional to the power consumption, so have a look at that.

As for noise, I don't think that there is any way to really know without running both in your exact setup, side by side.

Alex

 

[johno4]

I found myself asking the same question, and I decided to go with the quiet one. I have heard a lot of people complain about the noise that mags make and only one person about the quiet one. Also the quiet ones use much less energy than the mags. Based on these two things Im getting a quiet one. Hope that helps some.

John

 

[Steve_B]

Thanks for the replies. I only have a limited amount of height space as well. The depth of water at the bottom of the wet/dry is only around 5.5". I Didn't take into consideration that the filters
get clogged the flow slows, thus the water level in the tank drops. I hate to see the water line below the canopy. The teeth on the overflow were cut to handle the pumps full 3,000GPH. So I would like a high volume pump to circulate through the modular filters and back into the sump, where a large portion of filtered water will be pumped back into the tank. I have used that system on another tank and it worked great. In this case I wanted every gallon that goes into the tank to go through the filter first. It's a matter of poor planning on my part.

 

[Steve_B]

Actually I forgot that I had the tank built with at least one unused bulkhead for a return to the tank. I could just pump the filtered water straight into the tank, but then I would be pushing more than 3,000, thus my overflow may not take the additional flow. The other matter I have to take into consideration is space. I could mount the pump externally, because of my height capacity in the sump, but I have used almost every space for my 2 pumps and 2 oceanclear modular filters. I feel I am in a fix here.