The whole Rio fiasco is turning into a bit of a joke. There's a marathon thread now on RC from some guy who wants to file a class-action lawsuit. Rios may fail more than other pumps, who knows for sure, regardless they are less expensive and you generally get what you pay for. I have one running my skimmer. I clean it once every few months. Jonathan had it before me and who knows who had it before that. It works fine except I have to bang it to get it started again after cleaning it. If it explodes I guess I've been warned.
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-Quinn
Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906
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