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Old 01/09/2008, 12:27 PM
Haffs09 Haffs09 is offline
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Mike, I hear you about patience! I started my build thread last February and since then...have sold that tank! I do have something else up my sleeve, but won't start another thread until I actually have pictures of progress.

As far as the pumps, I agree with ChrisGuy...you might want to look at the sequence line of pumps. You need to know you two main things 1. What is your desired flowrate at your display tank or other tanks and 2. Pressure loss throughout the system.

Then you can take a look at the pump curves and figure out which one is the most efficient for you. If you take 15feet as your head loss, the barracuda will give you approx 1750gph at approx 180W. This blows the mag24 out of the water in terms of efficiency.