Aqueon Aquarium Gravel Cleaner Water Changer

lads came across this to help with water changes/cleaning, have one on order(del around 25 jan) from ebay for around €80 all in. has any body got one and if so how good is it,if no one has one i will give full feedback on it in the next few weeks. (Aqueon Fish Tank Aquarium Gravel Cleaner Water Changer)..

Let's know how ya get on bibsun. I have a normal gravel cleaner that siphons the water from the tank into a bucket. In what way is this different. I'm all for labour saving devices

have a look on youtube goes through every thing about it .....louis
it comes in 25 meter and 50 meter lengths...

dave

I had used the normal gravel cleaner with a number of 20 Litre containers for years. Back breaking!!!

What I've done is remove the existing tube and put a length of garden hose on which takes the water to a drain outside the house. Works a dream and no more back breaking containers to move.

Works for both my tanks, one in the rear of the house (out througth the patio doors) and the other in the front of the house(out through a window).

good idea. I might try the garden hose but I like to keep the tank water for the garden plants!!! I looked at the aqueon water changer on youtube,seems like a lot of water wasted. Might be expensive when we have to start paying for it. I'd hate to be doin a weekly water change on your tank Bibsun

Looks good, similar to the Python that I am always reading about on US forums. Let us know how you get on with it! I assume putting tap water into the tank and then dechlorinating after is safe enough?

haha,wimps the lot of yeh.....a bit of back ache adds to the satisfaction of the water change.....Ehh,time to get in shape people!!

Ger

not when you have a small fellow(4) running around doing water changes !!!! trying to help you......

just a update on the above product, i have had it for about 3wks so far and water changes are done very fast with this and no mess.The cleaning of the substrate is quite good as you can control the water flow coming out from the tank which is good if you have a fine substrate. overall i am quite pleased with it
dave.

PompeyBill wrote:

Looks good, similar to the Python that I am always reading about on US forums. Let us know how you get on with it! I assume putting tap water into the tank and then dechlorinating after is safe enough

putting tap water into the tank and then dechlorinating after??????

wat are peoples views on doing this as i have always dechlorinating water befor add to the tank

if its ok to dechlorinat water after addin to the tank is safe then why does people not do it and y do the sell it in the video like this

sean

I do the same Sean but would be so much easier to just add the dechlorinator to the tank after filliing straight tap water. Anyone got a view on this?

chris again it WAS ASKED noone said they done it we wanted to see wat peoples views where on it

if u look on youtube about this product they sell it in the video and fill the tank and add the water conditioner later this is y i brought it up it is a bad sellin point as to people new to fish keeper would losse a lot off fish this way if they went by it

this is something i came across in connection to using straight tap water into your tank i hope the link works below (the post below was from different forum)
The amount of chlorine added to tap water is enough to assure that any bacteria in the distribution system do not end up in the water at the end of the system, this being your faucet. These are a very small percentage per volume compared to an aquarium when you take a mature biological filtration system into account. This is the reason additional chlorine is added to swimming pools, if the amount of chlorine in tap water were able to neutralize an unlimited amount of bacteria this would not be needed. It would also mean you could use tap water to disinfect anything, making household disinfectants unnecessary.

This is not the case with tap water, if it were it would make it undrinkable. This is one of the reasons many people get away with doing water changes without treating the water; there is far more bacteria in the biological filter than the disinfectants in the replacement water are capable of neutralizing. It may knock back the bacteria an insignificant amount in a mature filter, in a newly cycled tank this could be quite a bit more significant.

As far as water changes without using dechlorinator, there is a very good topic on the subject www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/161413-water-changes/

Most of my tanks are drilled with overflows for water changes, just hang a hose & add water, 5gpm. I add Prime afterward more for the removal of any metals, per that topic I've found that with smaller water changes and a mature filter it isn't really needed.

dave.

Hi draco i think i got the link sorted now..

dave.

I siphon water out into 25l drums, and pour over my plants in garden, then use this to pump water back in to the tank from an 80l black bin which i have treated and heated the night before, works a treat.