Reeflo Snapper Pump Hybrid (FYI for those who care)

[phippsj]

I had to upgrade to a more powerful pump. After reading reviews on the net about different pumps I decided to go with the Snapper Hybrid. It can start as a regular snapper, and then has a nice conversion kit to get the same flow you would recieve with a Dart. I thought that was nice in case I wanted to increase flow even more later.

One other feature were the claims that the pump was extremely quiet. I have found out that there are actually TWO motors. The regular Snapper (the one I bought) has a AO Smith motor, which is not incredibly loud, but it is not quiet either. Turns out there is a Snapper Gold which has a Baldor motor that is apparently the 'ultra quiet' pump... the claim is that someone had to put their hand on the pump to tell it was running.

So, hopefully I can get the good folks at Reeflo to help me out with an exchange/swap. But it is time to move on to the Snapper Gold.

[hobogato]

good info, thanks for posting. how is it with heat transfer? the reason i ask, i have a velocity 4 pump on my closed loop and it is heating my tank up quite a bit. i may need to switch to something else, and quiet is a must. could you report back once you get the snapper gold please?

[Europhyllia]

It's nice that they would save energy compared to submersibles. Not cheap though so they better be good.
I'll need a new return pump for my bigger tank. Please let me know how it works out for you.
We're talking about something like this (link (http://www.championlighting.com/product.php?productid=34355&cat=858&page=1)) right? Too bad they don't come with less gph. That's quite a bit of flow going through the sump.

[jrsatx20]

ive got the sequence dart with halides and return pumps and fuge light on 24/7 cant post on heat transfer. the motor drives an impeller so dont think any heat transfer. but i can say mine is very quiet. fans that i had cooling my tank were the only thing you could here. using dart for closed loop circulation. dont know what motor mine has.