I’ve always used play sand in my rift tanks and it was always fine
so nobody told me about pythons?
- Thread starter KATALEKEEPER
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I've been using PFS for about 30 years, never had a problem, with cloudiness once well rinsed.
I usually rinse using water change water taking advantage of water change water, so as not to waste the new, but never had to rinse very long.
My pool filter sand usually came from a abrassives company that supplies water filtration plants, about $5 for 50 lbs.
I usually rinse using water change water taking advantage of water change water, so as not to waste the new, but never had to rinse very long.
My pool filter sand usually came from a abrassives company that supplies water filtration plants, about $5 for 50 lbs.
I’ve had to replace the plastic reducer that attach to the lift tube and bought an extended lift tube for 36 inch deep tanks otherwise it’s the same.
I didn’t even have money for it back then I traded about 30 mixed Mbuna Africans at the LFS for the one I have. Back then Africans weren’t cheap either.
Oh I remember.....one shop that has long since closed down was like a mecca for expensive Africans and I was blown away by some of their prices.
I was to poor when I started keeping fish to purchase one so 5g buckets at a time to do water changes. I would set the bucket in the tub to fill. I purchased a used 135g that had a very ugly reseal job. I was in a second floor apartment with a balcony and had the tank 90% full (one bucket at a time) when the tank failed. Guy downstairs came screaming out of his apt 
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While in NYC most clients didn't have a sink or restroom near by so it was bucket patrol until I tweeked my back. I purchased a 40g rubbermaid trash can on wheels and carried a magdrive 5 pump to drain/fill.
I currently have around 100ft of python hose that only gets used when I care for another hobbyist's tanks. I have a shower in the corner of my fish room dialed down to 75ish degrees and a dedicated length of hose with a pvc tank filler. I also have a 5ft ish long hose with a Fluval canister hose support clip and a strainer so I can hang the hose on the side of a tank, suck on the other end and drop the hose on the floor to drain. I also have plastic spring clamps and will use my step stool as a hose support so that I can rinse filter media in the hose discharge.
I have learned that some newer faucets have push to connect water connections that rely on an o-ring to seal and that if a python is connected to said faucet it will create enough back pressure to cause o-ring failure.
Tank filler. I normally only use the one hanging on the shower curtain rod.
.While in NYC most clients didn't have a sink or restroom near by so it was bucket patrol until I tweeked my back. I purchased a 40g rubbermaid trash can on wheels and carried a magdrive 5 pump to drain/fill.
I currently have around 100ft of python hose that only gets used when I care for another hobbyist's tanks. I have a shower in the corner of my fish room dialed down to 75ish degrees and a dedicated length of hose with a pvc tank filler. I also have a 5ft ish long hose with a Fluval canister hose support clip and a strainer so I can hang the hose on the side of a tank, suck on the other end and drop the hose on the floor to drain. I also have plastic spring clamps and will use my step stool as a hose support so that I can rinse filter media in the hose discharge.
I have learned that some newer faucets have push to connect water connections that rely on an o-ring to seal and that if a python is connected to said faucet it will create enough back pressure to cause o-ring failure.
Tank filler. I normally only use the one hanging on the shower curtain rod.
I apologise in advance for digressing but the title of this thread reminds me of a story my dear old dad once told me when he was a young man in the army. His regiment went to the jungles of Belize if I remember rightly for training. On more or less the first day he had a surprise encounter with one of the "locals", and whelped, "bloody hell, nobody told me about pythons". Lol.
