Magnetic "seio"

[Gizmo]

I can't seem to find the link, but a few months ago there was a company making a "SEIO" type of power head that had the motor on the outside of the glass and the impeller on the inside, has anyone heard when these will be sold to the public?

[mr_alberta]

They are called Vortec pumps and being distributed by Tunze. I think the MSRP is $345US IIRC.

[Joe Reefer]

http://www.ecotechmarine.com/products/vortech.htm

[G1GY]

Looks good, but at that price I'm going to wait for a knock off to surface. :)

[Quinster]

they are found at..

http://www.ecotechmarine.com/home.htm

MSRP should be around $399 Cad. from what I have been told.

[Chin_Lee]

they are found at..

http://www.ecotechmarine.com/home.htm

MSRP should be around $399 Cad. from what I have been told.

u know.......... 400 buck plus tax comes to around 430. Man o' man, that is a lot of money for a fancy powerhead. Oh i know some people will compare this to the tunze products etc but i just find it hard to justify. my 2 cents.

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Yeah, after all $400 was what I paid for my almost new 160g acrylic tank & stand. To spend that on one powerhead.....

Looks like an extremely cool idea though.

[crusty1]

Does anyone know how much volume it moves?

[Willow]

guess it all depends on what’s your goals for you tank is, what you want to grow and how seriously you take this hobby. if you were growing softies and zoos then you wouldn’t need one, if on the other hand you have a 220 gallon tank and are growing sps you need a lot of water movement.

the pump moves a max of 3100 gph.

tunze is not distributing the pump, tunze is their competitor.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23029&highlight=vortech

[Delphinus]

The price is basicaly comparable to Tunzes, or at least within a stone's throw. Which doesn't surprise me, I was thinking the initial claims from last year that they would be an economical alternative seemed a little far fetched to me.

But having said that, if you want to look at a Tunze then there's no reason to not consider one of these. Fairly equivalent idea and fairly equivalent price, at least now we as consumers have more choice. No wires in the tank and and less unit inside the tank are a big plus, however one minus is you can't adjust the direction (i.e., it's perpendicular to the glass) whereas a Tunze can be adjusted. The claim of a wider spread is neat, but the problem with flow in a tank is that you can't have water flowing one way without the same volume of water flowing in the return direction, so I think the difference in flow patterns between one of these and a Tunze would be fairly negligible in that respect.

All in all a very promising unit. Of course, it's still not available. These people are using marketing to the extreme, creating enough buzz to ensure the covet factor is huge for when they do finally release the units to sales. I think it will be hard to get one when they do come out. So, I'm thinking for somebody who's setting up a tank right NOW, it may be better to look at Tunze, but for someone who's setting up a tank a year from now, they would be a viable alternative (just my speculation and I'm not trying to dissuade anyone from considering one of these).