A pump to fit inside a 25 litre drum for water changes?

[t.doyle]

As above,

Anyone know of a pump that will inside a 25 litre drum but have a pump head greater than 1.5m? there are many like the tunze mini, hydor pico etc.. but they only pump to about 50cm. Which is useless as I need to go from the floor to the top of the tank.

If anyone else has some genius plan of making water changes easy, that would be great!

 

[biffster]

my other half does all her water changes with a 10 ltr bucket she dosent use a pump she is thinking of getting a long hose to empty
the water straight out of the door or a window but saying that most of our water changes come straight of the cold tap through the HMA
filter

 

[gramski]

As above,

Anyone know of a pump that will inside a 25 litre drum but have a pump head greater than 1.5m? there are many like the tunze mini, hydor pico etc.. but they only pump to about 50cm. Which is useless as I need to go from the floor to the top of the tank.

If anyone else has some genius plan of making water changes easy, that would be great!

I use a New-Jet 1200 and it does the job fine. £23.95 from Charterhouse Aquatics.

 

[t.doyle]

I use a New-Jet 1200 and it does the job fine. £23.95 from Charterhouse Aquatics.

And that fits inside the drum opening of a 25 litre drum?

 

[biffster]

i just thought of this we used to use one for emptying pounds we had i mounted to an
angled drill and fastened to a board and the pipe goes in the barrel its a cheap option if you
already have the drill
Toolstation > Power Tools > Water Pumps > Drill Pump

 

[Spnl]

I was going to ask the same question !
I use a newjet 1200 and have tried a maxijet 750. No problem pumping from floor into my tank 1.45m, so I am sure would go higher, but it doesn't fit into my 25l water carriers, nor will it work with a hose attached to the inlet. Seems unable to suck the air out of the tube, even if I immerse it with a hose on it won't work, so I end up pouring water into a bucket and it pumps it into the tank. It works but only a matter of time before I kick the bucket over or something.
I will be interested to see what answers you get.

 

[AverageWhiteBloke]

Can you not put the water into a 5gall fermenting bin then the pump in there. London Dragon also came up with diy water change ideas worth looking into.

 

[gramski]

And that fits inside the drum opening of a 25 litre drum?

Don't think so but it doesn't have to go in, it comes with a attachment that allows a hose to be fitted to the intake so it should be fine.

 

[biffster]

did no one check out the link that i put up it would work ideal

 

[Steve Smith]

I've tried one of those before and I wouldn't recommend them personally.