Keeping Mold Away from Your Python Tube

[Jumko]

Actually, I have the Aqueon version, but that's irrelevant (I don't know the generic name for these type of vacs). Anyways, last thing I want is the return water passing through a tube of mold. What do you guys do? Or is it just inevitable. I just can't see how I can keep the interior of a 25' hose dry enough to prevent mold.

 

[Rbishop]

Hang it up almost vertical in a dry (low humidity) area....blow dry it. But I use it as is, mold or not, and clean it with bleach every so often...

 

[real]

Run a bleach solution through it. Then rinse with fresh water.


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[dbosman]

Periodically you have to bleach clean it.

 

[fshfanatic]

I have had the same gravel vac attached to a 100' of tubing for close to 9 yrs and never even thought to consider it as nothing has ever happened. I simply drain the water out of the hose, coil it up and hang it on a hook.

 

[reflexhunter]

I have had the same gravel vac attached to a 100' of tubing for close to 9 yrs and never even thought to consider it as nothing has ever happened. I simply drain the water out of the hose, coil it up and hang it on a hook.

Same here, just get the water out.

 

[fshfanatic]

Same here, just get the water out.

Exactly, it's not Rocket Science or brain surgery..

 

[Rbishop]

Gets pretty humid where I live....even when properly drained, after a few weeks, 4-6, you get some slime growing.

 

[Nepherael]

On a side note how do you guys dechlor when filling with a python from a faucet? Dechlor for the whole tank volume? Before filling or after?

 

[Rbishop]

Prime...tank volume...