It may seem that way, but in reality it worked very well and was a breeze to do the 10 with it. I dont have a whole lot of extra hose lying around or getting in the way. My buckets all started cracking and unless you wanted to do 1/3 gallon trips each time, you were going to spill water. Having water on the floor annoys me all day. Havent used it for the 5g though. I will probably just use the water changer to fill the 5g, and might come up with something to attach my smaller gravel vac to it. I dont get why everyone complains about setting it up and stuff. Unscrew the airator from you faucet, and screw the assembly on. Keep in mind some (if not most) faucets are not righty tighty lefty loosy, but they are the opposite. I did the water change in under 10 min and that includes putting the water changer together. Oh, and I am probably getting a 29 in the somewhat near future.
I shut off the air pump in my brine shrimp hatchery a little while ago and let things settle. I was expecting like in all the videos where the shells are on the top and the shrimp are in the middle or bottom. Mine had most of the shells at the top, but there were still some on the sides and stuff. At first glance I only saw one shrimp, but now after looking a bit more there is a good number of them. I am just glad any hatched at all, the best heat source I had for them was a tiny light bulb and my dad made me keep it away from the thing effectively doing nothing. Plus my hatchery is made out of the 20 oz mt dew bottles, not 1 liter bottles. For half a packet of salt/eggs (package comes with 3 packets) I actually got a good number of brine shrimp to hatch.
