So after 6 years of keeping multiple aquariums..

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Mudfrog

Mudfrog

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I broke down this past weekend and bought a Python.. WOW.. Now I actually look forward to water changes :D

I'm trying to grow some of my fish out quickly thus doing two 50% water changes every week. This is so much easier then dumping buckets of water in the back yard, then filling them in the bath tub.

Best $29 I've even spent... now I just need to plumb a sink in the basement for the two tanks down there :headbang2
 
I also bought one and I love it.
After a few months you will have to replace the plastic part that goes to the sink. The threads strip very fast. I bought a replacement for .79 cents.
I also went to hardware store and got a adaptor.I didn't have to remove the plastic part from the sink. They sell same size parts for garden hoses. Have a pop apart connector so NO screwing at all ! just push and pull and it comes right apart. easy.

Also if you don't keep them clean the hose stains.I bought a tank and the guy gave me his python.His python was stained badly,nasty brown. I bleached it ,made it some better.

dd
 
You can make your own also. It's much cheaper than the python and just as good. Make it to what ever length you need.
 
ziggy2;1238520; said:
You can make your own also. It's much cheaper than the python and just as good. Make it to what ever length you need.
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yea i reather have that extra money for filtration plus you still get a pylon(sp)
 
they are on clearance at my LFS. $20 for a $25 footer, I need more than 25' though :(

I was thinking.. wtf this is stupid idea I have to be able to build one of these for cheaper so why waste the money? Anybody ever done it?
 
The main part of a Python is nothing more than a water bed drain and fill valve available at any good bedding store...the rest is just hose.
 
only thing bad, that i know of, about pythons is they waist a lot of water when taking water out, cause it the same as leaving the water running, thats what causes the suction. i advise, if your sink is lower than your tank, to use the old fashion way (starting a siphon, without python part) of draining the tank and then use the python to refill. but you dont have too, thats just what i would do
 
I use RO/DI water in all of our tanks as a lot of you know and distrust using tap water directly but like you I hate logging buckets around so I built a simple transfur pump and a hose long enough to reach the yard from our tanks.
 
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