Python Gravel Vac

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david yurik

david yurik

Jack Dempsey
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Feb 4, 2011
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last night i got to use my new Python for the first time. :headbang2 totally awesome is all i can say. why oh why didn't i buy this sooner. :cry: so long syphoning and coolers and buckets!! if anyone is on the fence about buying one of these things just do it now and save yourself the headache. thanks to whoevers post i read that told me the same thing. water changes just went from being a PITA to bi-weekly without a problem. after the change all my levels were very low or 0 on the API test kit for nitrIte, nitrAte, and ammonia. PH was 7.3 ish. a little high i think for the bala's but they and the oranda's seem to act just fine!!

dave
 
I always liked this ad:

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fishguy66;4915050; said:
Have had one for a long time, & when you have a huge tank, they are worth every penny. Just wish that the part that connects to the faucet was available in brass, they tend to break easily.
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Mine is brass!
 
I have a gravel vac that connects to the sink also that looks the same as the python. will pythons give me better performance, or will it be the same as what i got?
 
I left the hobby for a couple of years due to nerve damage in my back. the python allowed me to come back. two 50-60% wc's per week is no problem. 5 min. to vacuum the sand, 1 min. to wipe the glass. the rest is sitting back waiting for the tank to empty or fill.
carfree-dude, they are pretty much the same. some people make thier own.
 
Carfree_Dude;4915239; said:
thats a shame. Mine drains really really slowly. it can take 45 minutes to do a 50% water change on a 55 gallon.
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Gravity has alot to do with it. It sounds as though your drain sink is at a higher elevation than the 55 gallon tank bottom that you are vacuming from.

I have found it MANY MANY times faster just running a 50ft hose attached to the gravel vacum outside (downhill). The siphoning is like a bazillion times faster than when I used to use pythons.

I also have a 75 ft. hose running from my sink that can reach all 19 tanks for filling. This is an even greater increase in ease as well as cutting the time in less than half of that using a python. Once the draining of a tank is complete, I can start filling the tank from the sink while draining the next tank simultaneously!

Either run you python to a sink at a lower elevation than the bottom of your tank, or run it out into your yard (at lower elevation than the bottom of your tank)!

With a python you drain or fill, but not both. I drain and fill simultaneously!:headbang2
 
sink is about the same elevation as the bottom of my tank. Its impossible to drain water out of my sump of my 210 gallon, which is on the floor.

Would it be possible to get a water pump to help the water along and drain faster?
 
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