Quote Originally Posted by luke11cnc View Post
what is wrong with a plastic box and a pond pump delivering 1000l/m ??
There is nothing wrong with that setup as far as I know. I'm using an extremely small pond pump that is probably less than 1l/m. Before I had an 8l/m pump and that was plenty...I would say that overkill is good to be safe, but if you're transferring the heat away fast enough anyway then all a bigger pump achieves is to heat the water up more itself. Pond pumps, such as this one (which is plenty), are also brushless:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aquarium-P...#ht_2736wt_905
These spindles don't need much cooling as most of the time we're operating them at nowhere near full power/speed and they are inherently quite efficient so the heat generated is not that great. This means that especially if you use a metal container the natural conduction of heat into the atmosphere is enough to keep it stable as long as you have a reasonable amount of water.