Who else still uses buckets?

[stickman]

i use buckets on all my tanks. i run all the old water outside to the flowerbeds. summer time anyways. the 110 and the 40 are down stairs and i can run a garden hose to them to fill up,but the others are upstairs and those i fill up with buckets.

 

[PygoManiac]

I use a 20 gallon rubbermaid container and siphon out the water as i'm vacuming the gravel, i do this 2 times so i drain out 40 gallons, i have a 135 gallon tank.. when its time to refill, i will fill the container again with clean water, add conditioner, and salt - than i pull the contain back to the aquarium and bucket the water back into the aquarium 5 gallons at a time...the whole process takes me about 45 minutes to do, very easy and simple task to do

 

[Brian Fish]

i use the bucket my tanks are in my basement didn't know there was any other way to do it i just carry buckets back and forth up and down the stairs

Sounds just like me have to check into this python thing.

 

[jcardona1]

I'm honestly surprised that a lot of people still use buckets. Even then a 25ft python is only $30 at walmart. Really does make the job easier and if you have enough water pressure, creates a strong vacumn for cleaning out your gravel

 

[stickman]

doin it this way never bothered me. i heard the python wastes alot of water. is that true? never payed attn. to it, really dont know much about the python.

 

[jcardona1]

well yeah it wastes water because it runs off of water pressure to create the vacumn. dont bother me as my house is not on a meter! but yeah, if somebodys trying to conserve water the python is not for you!

 

[dbcb314]

too bad my apartment has a stupid faucet in the sink, the attachment wont work on it, I guess I could get one long enough for the bathroom instead...

looks like im stuck with the ol bucket lol


which part is theone you buy? http://www.pythonproducts.com/repparts.html

 

[fish tamer]

i use it for my 55

 

[Fish on Fire]

Lol, I used to use bowls to get water out of the tank. Then I upgraded to a hose where I sucked on one end to get the water going, sometimes I would end up with fish water in my mouth, choking, lol. But now I stopped being cheap and got a python, lol.

 

[voss345]

I used buckets until i had back surgery ( I would siphon into buckets and carry upstairs and dump refill with python ) , now my parents make me use a python at all times ( for tanks in the basement i drain into the basement sump )