Rio Plus 2500 HP Aqua Pump, 782 GPH

This pump is a little bigger than I expected, but. It has a heart and soul and it has a good amount of flow even with 4-5 feet of head on it. I bought two, and one is pushing just fine against nearly 8' of head and delivering water.I needed to fill a swamp cooler from a clean water reservoir on a regular basis and it will move what water is needed in a moment, no more muss fuss or bucketing. And no hesitation or feeble trickle at 8' of head.I have also set up a multi unit stepped goldfish holding/breeding setup with 100-300 gallon units (5 and climbing)and a barrel filter plus an end pond holder with plants of around 600 gallons and one is easily delivering the water from one end to the other with excellent flow and turnover against about 4-5 feet of head. I did have to fit a custom made mesh (7 holes/inch) 'strainer basket' on the intake to slow down the water speed at the surface of the basket (not restricting my inflow) and catch some of the loose (algae and other detris) material and prevent a fish from being vacuumed to the intake... but this pump is doing an awesome job.The number of attachments included looks like 'what the (bleep)' but I was very grateful when I started assembling and found things like the garden hose attachment.... that is one great plus. A very large number of items to tailor intake and outflow to whatever task you need to set it up for is a very BIG plus with this pump.I have not seen what my electric bill will be for running two of these but I am sure it will be a lot less than what I was using before that were also not as powerful in output and much bigger.I am a little worried about the impeller but it seems to be well made and putting out. Time will tell if they will stand up.For the money this is a (deleted) um... heckuva ... pump.

Just wanted to update everyone on the pump. As of 4-4-13 it is still running great, with no noise. Don't hesitate to purchase this. Same product local fish stores are selling, only cheaper.I ordered the Rio Plus 2500 HP Aqua Pump for my 90 gallon pre-drilled fish/reef tank and have had it running about 1 month. I did a lot of research, which included calling local fish stores to see what they recommend. For the quality and price you can't beat this. The only small problem I had was it was a little to large for my wet dry when I had the bottom plate on with the suction cups. I removed the bottom plate and suction cups and set it on the bottom of the wet/dry.I didn't want any noise so I placed a piece of the filter sponge (About 1/4 in thick) under it and what do you know "No Noise". Also, don't worry about pressure, because it pushes the water great through the tank. So much water movement, it is moving my sand around. This is an excellent product.

This pump is awesome. I have a vertical faux rock fountain almost 5 feet tall. I returned three pumps before finding this one. It is very quiet unlike the other that said they were but were louder then the water sound. It lived up to the lift height that was stated in the description and give the fountain great flow and pressure to the top. Our fountain outside is in area very close to a slider so we could we really need a pump that operates quietly and this one does. Its been about a month its on a timer and so far so good hopefully it will run for a few years. I may order one for storage in case this is not on Amazon in the future and most pumps like this eventually need to be replaced.Thanks to Amazon prime finding the right pump was not to burdensome with their easy return system.

Okay...I waited until all my Rio pumps failed before writing this review. I used to swear by Rio pumps...right up until I started losing plants by the six-pack. Why...when used in a gravity fill system the pump must kick on about 4 times a day...note that...only 4 times a day for 15 minutes. That's it. So this last failure set the record for failure. I took it out of the box brand new but within 5 days it failed and killed plants by root drowning. Why...they have the cheapest...worst...pissant core pins ever made. This one broke in 3 places at once...and nothing jammed or blocking the flow. It just broke...now I have six of these pumps with broken pins...I threw them away rather than change pins to brass...they aren't worth saving. So much for any more orders from me and my friends who use LOTs of RIO pumps until now.. I have been growing indoors for 40 years. I know what I am talking about. If I could sue you Rio I would but it would be a waste of time...just like your pumps.

This pump works well and pumps a good amount of water. It is also reasonably quiet and lower power. It seems to be pretty easy to gum up if anything gets passed the filters. I have had to take it apart and clean it a few times in the past 6 months, which isn't so bad. It also doesn't do too great of a job recovering from priming without water for a few moments.Overall good pump for a good price and I bought two. Improvements could be made, but your money is well spent here.

this pump is very quiet and and when its on it has great waterflow however I wouldnt buy it again bcause I have only had it for 2 to 3 wks and I have had to unplug it 2 times- each time I had to unplug it it was hard to get it to get going again- my husband had to take it completly apart and put it back together to get it to come back on - now I feel like I need to have a pump for backup because it seems this one could go out at any minute - I have it on a 55 gallon reef aquarium and cant afford for it to go out - but there are times when I put say an anenome in my tank that goes missing and I'm afraid it is going to get sucked up and want to be able to unplug the pump for a minute you cant do that with this one- when it happened I googled it and found that is a very common problem with this pump-I am going to spend the extra money and get an Ehim

Not as strong as i thought, over price.