TheReeferer
01/20/2017, 07:05 PM
Experienced refers always say have a spare pump at the ready ... well my return failed while I was away during the holidays, luckily all fish and coral survived but everything in the sump died due to lack of circulation there.
Sending back the pump for repair would have taken 5 business days at best if courier cost didn't matter. But I think to most spending close to 150 round trip on next day delivery is a lot of money to make dissappear.
I got lucky and was able to replace the pump locally and had the tank back up the third day.
The pump I have is a Vectra L1 so it's too expensive to have a spare back up of the same pump. So what I did immediately following was to order a mag drive pump and all need plumbing so that it can be hooked up on the spot. The plan would be to run the back up while the main pump goes in for repair.
I suggest anyone without a backup pump and plumbing to get that setup right away.
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Sending back the pump for repair would have taken 5 business days at best if courier cost didn't matter. But I think to most spending close to 150 round trip on next day delivery is a lot of money to make dissappear.
I got lucky and was able to replace the pump locally and had the tank back up the third day.
The pump I have is a Vectra L1 so it's too expensive to have a spare back up of the same pump. So what I did immediately following was to order a mag drive pump and all need plumbing so that it can be hooked up on the spot. The plan would be to run the back up while the main pump goes in for repair.
I suggest anyone without a backup pump and plumbing to get that setup right away.
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