drip tube pump

[viva la viv]

hey people.. Any one ever have to try to pump water 6ft straight up. This is what I am attempting, With little luck. I am not able to find a pump that will get water up there Aside from a very power, and space consuming model. Does anyone know of a good, energy effecient, small, powerfull pump that will pump 6ft straight up!!!. If not I will have to make a resivior half way up the outside back wall of the tank and use 2 pumps. and seeing as i have only 1 outlet near by on the wall that has a 250 watt mh, heat light, mister, and fogger 2 more pumps would have it looking like the griswalds x-mas tree.
Thanks and merry christmas

[froggsong]

Are you looking at pet specific pumps? You should be able to find a fountain pump to do the job really easily. Shouldn't cost you much more than 50 bucks. I have one I picked up for a couple of buck from a pet store closing, it was a pond pump. The Beckett pumps from Home Depot are pretty good.

[beckdg]

how about a dosing pump? i'm not sure there are any rated with a 6' head but going by the general idea i don't see why there'd be an issue. how much water and will it be perpetually running?

[Mikey8567]

Yes I would look in to the fountain pump as Fronggsong stated, alot of them have a head pressure around 6-8' vertical rise. Using a check valve inline could help also (just in case the pump pressuse drops for a sec, the pump wouldn't have to pump the entire vertical rise again).

With those pumps also might invest in a small ball valve that would allow you to control the volume if the output was too much.

Remember too much can be controlled, too little just won't do.