no spill python

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Southern Rebel

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I have used a python before and it has worked great for years. I am now back in the hobby and at a new place and bought a 75 ft python (had to for it to reach) and apparently I do not have enough water pressure here to suck anything out of my tank. I can fill it fine though. Any ideas or other recommendations on cleaning my tanks/removing poop,debris,water for water changes/maint :(
 
can you show me the links to what you bought, do you just have a long hose going into the tub or outside or into a bucket? thanks
 
Go to any nursery or Home Depot and buy a powerful pond pump - submersible, and then buy X length of clear hose from Home Depot that fits, clamp it on, and run the hose outside or in the sink.

Buy a garden hose converter to attach to your sink (like a Python connection) to fill it back up.
 
I had a similar problem. My sink is about the same height as the bottom of my tank, the hose is kinda long, the python pump thing is weak and cheap. So I just built a PVC hook thing to hang on the side of the tank so the hose doesn't fall out of the tank and onto the floor when I'm not standing there holding it. I put hose barb on the other end of the hose, put it on my faucet outside, turn on the hose. go back to the PVC hook, open a ball valve just long enough to purge all the air outta the 50-75 foot hose. now I have hose full of water, about 2-3 feet below my tank substrate outside. unscrew the hose from the faucet outside, go back to the PVC hook and open the ball valve, voila. Siphon strong enough to vacuum waste off the sand. screw the hose back on the faucet to refill the aquarium after I'm done vacuuming. If the fish waste gets too big when the fish are bigger, then I"ll rig up a power head or something like this to the hose....http://www.petmountain.com/product/...rm={keyword}&gclid=CPTSlfDSrboCFUPl7AodExoAnA
 
I just use a garden hose. I put one end in the tank and take the other end outside and siphon it out. As long as the end of the hose is at a lower level than the tank you should be fine. I refill the tank with the python. An 80% wc takes me about 30 minutes this way


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Here's a picture. It's just a gravity siphon. The PVC hook on the end is just a tank hanger. I can put the vacuum attachment on it to vacuum. When I refill, I put the elbow on it so the faucet water doesn't blow sand all over the tank
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I just hang it on the front of the tank, like this.....
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ragin_cajun said:
Here's a picture. It's just a gravity siphon. The PVC hook on the end is just a tank hanger. I can put the vacuum attachment on it to vacuum. When I refill, I put the elbow on it so the faucet water doesn't blow sand all over the tank
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I just hang it on the front of the tank, like this.....
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Mine is almost the same but mi refill atachment is 1.5 and end w a T not an elbow

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