How Long Has Your Equipment Lasted?
- Thread starter HarleyK
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rena 301 air pump 13 years old, noisy as hell but still goin strong! poweres my undergravel silver aro tank ^_____________^
fantastic on whisper air pump.. i have 7 or 8 marineland air pumps that i use for back up and have had a couple i used on small tanks running for a couple years with no maintainance.....
Whisper 20-40 been running since 2000. Just stopped working over the weekend so I took out the impeller and cleaned it. Couldn't believe it when the thing started right back up. 8 years not bad for a cheap filter on my 20 gallon.
I've used whisper filters from the begining. Hard to find parts for them though slowly switching over to aqua clear and fluvel. For heaters I use ebo jager and elite.
Hi,
I have to put in another vote for the AquaClear Powerheads.
Back in the 70's, I had a salt tank that ran with ug and some AquaClear Powerheads, skimmer etc. I don't remember what model they were, but they were about the size of my fist, or just smaller. I have small hands, so I'm thinking a 50 (70?) or so. I got out of that phaze of fish addiction, got married, moved to WA, divorced came back home and found them still in a box in Father's workshop. They cooked out there in the AZ heat for a number of years and I used it off an on for one thing or another and still ran fine. Somewhere along the line I loaned one out and lost it, so one left. The heat started to get to the plastic and the little cone started to crack in the 90's. About that time, I used it in reverse to drain an 8,000 gal. above ground pool. It took time, but not a problem. Ran like a champ.
Coupld of years ago I got a fly up my nose and gave a bunch of fish stuff to Goodwill. It was in the box. Cone at the end was gone, but it still ran.
Hetep
I have to put in another vote for the AquaClear Powerheads.
Back in the 70's, I had a salt tank that ran with ug and some AquaClear Powerheads, skimmer etc. I don't remember what model they were, but they were about the size of my fist, or just smaller. I have small hands, so I'm thinking a 50 (70?) or so. I got out of that phaze of fish addiction, got married, moved to WA, divorced came back home and found them still in a box in Father's workshop. They cooked out there in the AZ heat for a number of years and I used it off an on for one thing or another and still ran fine. Somewhere along the line I loaned one out and lost it, so one left. The heat started to get to the plastic and the little cone started to crack in the 90's. About that time, I used it in reverse to drain an 8,000 gal. above ground pool. It took time, but not a problem. Ran like a champ.
Coupld of years ago I got a fly up my nose and gave a bunch of fish stuff to Goodwill. It was in the box. Cone at the end was gone, but it still ran.
Hetep
