12V-24V DC Dry-run Protection Brushless Submersible Water Pump, 410GPH, for Solar Fountain, Fish Pond, and Aquarium

Great replacement pump

2025 Spring update: Took the pump in over the winter months. Cleaned it with some vinegar today and brushed away all the dead brown algae. Hooked it up to my solar panel and whoala - still works great. Hopefully it’ll be another spring/summer/fall of use. UPDATED: A year later…. Took this out of the shed where it has been stored over the winter. Was very curious whether it would be fine. YES! Worked right away. No issues. Still love this pump. ORIGINAL: I've purchased several small solar stationary pumps in the past but they either have little power or die after a year. It was time for another replacement when I found this pump on Amazon and decided to give it a try. The box it was shipped in wasn't great and had some damage but fortunately the contents were intact and undamaged. I open the box and noticed this is a LARGE pump. It's like a brick! I was dubious about how it would work and tested the solar clips to a 9 volt battery and was floored with the pumping power. I appreciate that it has a flow rate adjustment on the side to raise or lower the water pumping level. Next I hooked it up to a 12W 12V solar panel. It works great! Better than any pump I've used before. The only issue is that it is so good that I need to dial the flow rate to almost the lowest setting for my birdbath otherwise the water is too high and partially splashes out of the birdbath bowl. Again, glad it has the adjustment. Now here is the thing with this pump though... as it is a large pump and the intake filter cutouts is also on top of the pump, the water level needs to be completely above the pump. The pumps I have used in the past have had intakes either at the bottom or side. With this one being also on the top portion and due to it's size, you will need a large volume of water. Make sure your basin is deep! So this might work better for a water feature basin than a birdbath depending on how deep your birdbath basin is. Now we'll wait and see how long it lasts...

Hight quality!

I bought this pump 5 years ago to run water for a small fountain/birdbath/water feature, akin to a spring bubbling up from a rock basin. I never expected it to last this long, still going strong and I've even run it dry a few times. Because I don't want it pumping a huge fountain of water, I have it running off 12V Power supply and use a 12V light dimmer to modulate the flow. Usually 9-10V gives me a couple of inches up "bubble up" from the rock basin, just right for a little bird-bath size pool and trickle down a few rocks back to the basin. I just was doing some work to spruce the feature up and was thinking how I never left a review. So far has been 100% worth the money.

Just what I was looking for.