Rio Seio vs. Tunze Stream?
 

Have seen these new high-flow, low-watt Rio "stream-type" powerheads mentioned a few times lately. Those of you on RC a lot - what's the buzz on these? They look too good to be true... even though they're not close to the real Streams, their specs are pretty impressive.

Here's a Review.

They are in last month's specials at SWC as well, so I'm curious about them.

That's an excellent review. I would like to try a couple right now. :eek:

the only draw back I see is that they will be over 110 bucks by the time you figure in shipping and such. for 190 you get a tunze with twice the flow. now if they could make a 1600 gph version for less than 100.00 then we would be talking. :mrgreen:

Steve

I was looking at the 65.99 for the 620 GPH unit - running at about the same power consumption as my MJ 900...

Could replace some powerheads, and get a better flow pattern, maybe save some electricity. Maybe even save some money, if J&L carries them... :mrgreen:

(no offense Jayson.) :biggrin:

I emailed Jayson on Sept 1, which is the day after the sale ended to see if he would send me one at the sale price. I have as yet to receive an answer. We can hope. :eek:

Due to the big demand for these pumps and the recent emails asking for them we are going to honor the price of august for 1 more week. AJ no offence taken if you want to save $ somewhere else you are more than welcome to do so. We have them in stock and ready to ship.

Very cool, Jay. :cool:

Can you give any input as to their performance?

Also, what will the price be after the special?

I have run them for aprox 1 month. they are the best bang for the buck that I have seen. they look to be well made better than previous pumps. They do flow alot of water for a small pump. You will just have to try one to see the difference over a powerhead.

How come they can't be hooked up to a timer or a wavemaker?

Ok, I could maybe understand that a wavemaker might be too many on/off cycles and that's hard on a motor, but why not a timer? I.e., 6 hours on 6 hours off or something, that doesn't sound too harsh to me ... what am I overlooking?

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Jay,

Looking at the pictures, it appears as thought the nozzle is capable of swivelling back/forth on a certain degree. Is this true or just my wishful thinking?

- Will