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I have been looking at purpose built pumps, just figured I would weigh out my options. The reeflo has a pretty steep slope after 50'. Im thinking it will make more sense to just make a man closet in the other end of the basement. It will be much less hassle than running 40' of lateral pipe on top of the vertical parts too.

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Originally Posted by WindowMaker (Post 673178)

Hydro cost doesn't concern me, but by this concept I am looking at 40ish feet of head pressure. Like I said, I simply want to see what the pump heads cost, or even what they are called. From there I can continue my decision making.

You might want to try this calculator on reefcentral, I really doubt that you have anywhere close to "40ish feet of head pressure". http://reefcentral.com/index.php/head-loss-calculator

A horizontal foot of run counts for very little in the terms of loss and head pressure.