python???
- Thread starter LMOUTHBASS
- Start date
Python No Spill Cleaning system.
The thing is worth every penny. You can hook it up to your kitchen sink and use it to fill or drain your aquarium. Makes water changes very quick. It has a valve that connects to your sink and creates suction to get the syphon effect going, and can be reversed to fill. It is used to clean the gravel. Comes in several lengths. Not cheap.....but worth it to me (after spending several years walking 1 gallon containers back and forth to the aquarium, or carrying 5 gallon buckets of water around the house to dump somewhere....).
Here is a link to show you: http://www.petsmart.com/products/product_730.shtml
The thing is worth every penny. You can hook it up to your kitchen sink and use it to fill or drain your aquarium. Makes water changes very quick. It has a valve that connects to your sink and creates suction to get the syphon effect going, and can be reversed to fill. It is used to clean the gravel. Comes in several lengths. Not cheap.....but worth it to me (after spending several years walking 1 gallon containers back and forth to the aquarium, or carrying 5 gallon buckets of water around the house to dump somewhere....).
Here is a link to show you: http://www.petsmart.com/products/product_730.shtml
Last edited:
Pythons are used to help you do water changes. You connect the python to your sink then turn on the cold water. This starts a siphon then you can use the gravel tub to clean the substrate. Once you have drained the amount of water need you can then adjust the temp of the water for refilling the tank. Once you have done that you can then fill up your tank. Here are the directions for the python.
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/add_info.cfm?pCatId=3910
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/add_info.cfm?pCatId=3910
Last edited:
SWEET!!!
i have to check this thing out!!! so you mean i can hook it up to my sink and fill my tank straight from there instead of walking gallons of water back n forth to my tank!!!
i have to check this thing out!!! so you mean i can hook it up to my sink and fill my tank straight from there instead of walking gallons of water back n forth to my tank!!!
Re: SWEET!!!
OMG I love this thing!
Even better, I live on the second floor so instead of running the water down the drain of the sink. I hang about 20 feet of house out my window. That creates quite a head of water. I can suck my 50g dry in 10 min
. And refills directly from the faucet rock!
Lmouth, it is worth every penny I highly recommend it
.
-Devitaf
PS. The wife likes that I don't make half the mess with this thing either.
OMG I love this thing!
Even better, I live on the second floor so instead of running the water down the drain of the sink. I hang about 20 feet of house out my window. That creates quite a head of water. I can suck my 50g dry in 10 min
. And refills directly from the faucet rock!Lmouth, it is worth every penny I highly recommend it
.-Devitaf
PS. The wife likes that I don't make half the mess with this thing either
.
Re: SWEET!!!
Yep.
If your water is "good" and you don't require much treatment, then it should be no problem at all. I just got one a few months ago, and I no longer dread water changes.
Like mentioned above though, one of the cool things is using the gravel cleaner. No more sucking on a hose, or sticking the hole thing in the aquarium just to create a syphon. You just hook it up to the sink, flip the valve to "drain", turn on the sink water and it creates a suction that starts the syphon action. Depending on your water pressure.......you can drain the aquarium even if it is lower than the sink.
Yep.
If your water is "good" and you don't require much treatment, then it should be no problem at all. I just got one a few months ago, and I no longer dread water changes. Like mentioned above though, one of the cool things is using the gravel cleaner. No more sucking on a hose, or sticking the hole thing in the aquarium just to create a syphon. You just hook it up to the sink, flip the valve to "drain", turn on the sink water and it creates a suction that starts the syphon action. Depending on your water pressure.......you can drain the aquarium even if it is lower than the sink.
great
let me see if i follow i read those articles -
when i vaccum the gravel i turn the sink on ? this somehow creates the suction to begin siphoning - does the water come back to the sink thuogh - it must not - is there another hose that then shoots the water out - that part confuses me a little - next q as far as putting water straight into the tank as long as i condition it while adding it by putting in de chlorinator in the fish won't get chlorine poisoning right?
im gonna have to get one of these things though but i'm still little confused on how it works
let me see if i follow i read those articles -
when i vaccum the gravel i turn the sink on ? this somehow creates the suction to begin siphoning - does the water come back to the sink thuogh - it must not - is there another hose that then shoots the water out - that part confuses me a little - next q as far as putting water straight into the tank as long as i condition it while adding it by putting in de chlorinator in the fish won't get chlorine poisoning right?
im gonna have to get one of these things though but i'm still little confused on how it works
Re: great
Yes, the water goes to the sink. If you want to you can unhook the python once the siphon is started and let it drain in the garden or some other place.
Well, they say that you don’t need to use de chlorinator but I would use it just to be safe.
Yes, the water goes to the sink. If you want to you can unhook the python once the siphon is started and let it drain in the garden or some other place.
Well, they say that you don’t need to use de chlorinator but I would use it just to be safe.
I will take some pics of the thing setup on my sink when I get home tonight and post them. All questions should be answered then.