Python Acting Up

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It might be the height of the sink compared to the height of the aquarium. I have a hard time filling my tank with water using something simular, because my aquarium is 24" high, and already on a stand that's 30" high. Having a sink up that high is a problem.
 
I never use the drain/fill thingy. I drain into my basement sink & then have a snap-on connector to fill from the same basement sink. I try to make WC on my 9 tanks as simple/easy as possible.
 
How is this possible? Once you switch to filling the tank it's a closed system, water comes out of the faucet, through the tube and into the tank. Where else can it go? The only way it wouldn't simply just work is if you have insanely, ridiculously low water pressure, but this would also hurt the ability to suck the water out. My water pressure is crap but it's enough that the Python will spray water at the faucet connection if I close the valve for more than three seconds. Either that or you have leak at the drain/fill valve and the water is just taking the path of least resistance down the drain, it'd be pretty obvious if this was the case because, um, water would be going into the sink...
 
jwarriner;1308181; said:
How is this possible? Once you switch to filling the tank it's a closed system, water comes out of the faucet, through the tube and into the tank. Where else can it go? The only way it wouldn't simply just work is if you have insanely, ridiculously low water pressure, but this would also hurt the ability to suck the water out. My water pressure is crap but it's enough that the Python will spray water at the faucet connection if I close the valve for more than three seconds. Either that or you have leak at the drain/fill valve and the water is just taking the path of least resistance down the drain, it'd be pretty obvious if this was the case because, um, water would be going into the sink...
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Maybe it evaporated.:ROFL:
I fill from my basement sink up to the 1st floor through 75' of tubing.
 
I have about 120' of tubing to reach all the tanks at both ends of the house.
 
Pufferpunk;1306997; said:
I never use the drain/fill thingy. I drain into my basement sink & then have a snap-on connector to fill from the same basement sink. I try to make WC on my 9 tanks as simple/easy as possible.
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Snapper on connector? What is that?
 
jwarriner;1308181; said:
How is this possible? Once you switch to filling the tank it's a closed system, water comes out of the faucet, through the tube and into the tank. Where else can it go? The only way it wouldn't simply just work is if you have insanely, ridiculously low water pressure, but this would also hurt the ability to suck the water out. My water pressure is crap but it's enough that the Python will spray water at the faucet connection if I close the valve for more than three seconds. Either that or you have leak at the drain/fill valve and the water is just taking the path of least resistance down the drain, it'd be pretty obvious if this was the case because, um, water would be going into the sink...
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You made a good point. " but this would also hurt the ability to suck the water out."
 
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