The Aqua Stream Pump from Aquatic Nature is a new high-performance top loading powerhead for flowing up your reef tank late-nineties style. We could go on about it’s high quality parts, 2500 and 3500 liter per hour flow rate but this thing has parts which need oiling. Need we say more? Like the Supreme Filter King and Aqua King pumps of old, the Aqua Stream has an external motor which is held out of water while connected to a submerged impeller. That’s right, this is a flow pump, which is not water proof, and uses an impeller instead of a propeller. What are we supposed to do with a centrifugal pump, run an undergravel filter with it? Puh-lease. Hey Aquatic Nature! 1997 called and it wants it’s TOP pumps back.
Aqua Stream from Aquatic Nature is a new top loading powerhead, how quaint
Jake Adams
Jake Adams has been an avid marine aquarist since the mid 90s and has worked in the retail side of the marine aquarium trade for more than ten years. He has a bachelor’s degree in Marine Science and has been the managing editor of ReefBuilders.com since 2008. Jake is interested in every facet of the marine aquarium hobby from the concepts to the technology, rare fish to exotic corals, and his interests are well documented through a very prolific career of speaking to reef clubs and marine aquarium events, and writing articles for aquarium publications across the globe. His primary interest is in corals which Jake pursues in the aquarium hobby as well as diving the coral reefs of the world.
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