Easier water changes on a "larger" aquarium

Now, daaaaaaalinks, :idea:
1. Haven't I told U over + over again about using RV-Motorhome hoses which R meant for drinking water? Of course, I have. I got my 2 RV hoses dirt cheap at the MAS aquarium auction in Minneapolis....I am a bargain shopper and don't need to wave name-brand tags around...

2. As to the connection on the kitchen sink, there is an answer available also. At any reputable hardware store you can find a water-hose-adapter-converter-thing. It will also thread onto the inside of any fancy-hoity-toytie faucet.
 
Rbishop said:
I pull off the vac tube and replace it with an old Mag 350 intake tube and strainer when I am using it just for water changes.
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bishop - any suggestions how to adapt that intake to a standard garden hose thread?

http://www.marineandreef.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=RML14020&CartID=1

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hose
 
Maybe a standard Python female/female coupling to a short piece of tubing that would compression slide on...?
 
Hello, hello, :)
Sometimes I have successfully used a piece of milking hose to connect 2 different size tubes...always worked, and I could continue with my task.
 
get a piece of hose and heat it up, then place over ur intake. Then u can just use a female adapter to connect it to your hose
 
cicrush13 said:
This is hands down the best piece of equipment any fish owner could ever have. Do NOT buy the Aquaeon knock off of the python. It does not have as good of a flow rate as the python.
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Your experience is obviously different than mine. I would never buy another Python/Lee water changer. Even if there is a slight reduction of flow rate in the Aqueon (which I have not noticed) the other improvements are way more than enough to offset it in my mind. I just prefer not having a water changer that leaks like a sieve at the faucet like every one of my python/lee ones have.

Unfortunately, I have to go do about 5 hours of water changes right now.
 
Water changing darlings, don't fight. :headshake2:
One does not need to purchase an expensive system to change the water in your tanks.
Parts needed for changing water:
a) A drinking water (RV-motorhome) hose
b) an inexpensive faucet adapter from Home Depot/Lowes/any rep. Hardware store to scew onto the faucet - inside threads
c) 2 little "Quick connectors" from the WalMart garden department...they are usually yellow plastic + R cheap. One for the faucet and one for the receiving/hook-up end of the hose.

Hang the other end hose (fasten/weigh it down/hold in place atthe tank so it does not fall to the floor) inside tank
slowly fill hose until all airbubbles are out.
disconnect the little "quick-connectors" HURRAH, you have suction going - now get busy cleaning gravel and syphoning water. :dance:

I bought a water changer long ago = a water waster NEVER USE IT!
 
sigrid - we get it already, we are not all
so handy, has a car and lives near a farm
situated between a walmart & home depot
 
Sigrid said:
Water changing darlings, don't fight. :headshake2:
One does not need to purchase an expensive system to change the water in your tanks.
Parts needed for changing water:
a) A drinking water (RV-motorhome) hose
b) an inexpensive faucet adapter from Home Depot/Lowes/any rep. Hardware store to scew onto the faucet - inside threads
c) 2 little "Quick connectors" from the WalMart garden department...they are usually yellow plastic + R cheap. One for the faucet and one for the receiving/hook-up end of the hose.

Hang the other end hose (fasten/weigh it down/hold in place atthe tank so it does not fall to the floor) inside tank
slowly fill hose until all airbubbles are out.
disconnect the little "quick-connectors" HURRAH, you have suction going - now get busy cleaning gravel and syphoning water. :dance:

I bought a water changer long ago = a water waster NEVER USE IT!
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Add in the cost of gas and time, and you could have completed your water changes before all that non-sense running around...or the time it tales to post in funny font and color....and btw, you do not necessarily need to run water to siphon out...
 
sigrid- I may be misunderstanding your setup but it sounds to me like you are just going off the siphon action of a hose into the sink. If that is the case most tanks I see are at least at the same level as the sinks. You are not going to get much of a siphon going with that and even if you do the suction won't be that great. If I am missing something please let me know.

One thing that would help is if you could run the hose to a sink on a lower floor or into a floor drain or a bathtub or shower stall. I do that with most of my tanks. I use a standard gravel vac (like you would if you were schlepping buckets) to siphon and gravel vac the water into a large garbage can with a garden hose attached to the bottom. The hose then runs into a floor drain. I do this because I have a lot of empty snail shells and whichever water changer I use (python/lee or aqueon) gets plugged up too fast and I have to keep running to the sink to reverse the flow and clean the gizmo out. Plus, once I get a few tanks ahead I can start filling with the water changer while I am draining the others. It also saves on water. It takes me about 5 hours to do around 70 tanks and it would be even less time if I didn't have to wait for the water heater to catch up.
 
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