heavy duty siphon

heres something i threw together last night to siphon water out of my tanks faster. chaned 20% on myu 240 with this in about 10 minutes. pipe was 10$ at home depot and is 1 1/4". allows me to exactly take out as much water as i want by the length of the downtube. gonna have figure a filter so it doesnt suck up fry but works great
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Cool idea.

DMD123 wrote:Cool idea.

thanks. i underestimated the weight of the hose when it has water in it so i have to make a pvc elbow to hang on the bathtub so it doesnt fall out but other than that i should be able to change water super fast now and with the new tank going up soon it will save loads of time and total cost was around 20$ so not bad

I use my FX5 to drain water. Does good but a bit slow.

this drained about 50 gallons in 5 minutes

So no pump? Just a gravity type siphon?

Yeah this diameter hose filled a 5 g bucket in maybe 15 seconds

I have been using an 1 1/4" hose 30' long to do the quick water changes on my tanks. That size hose I can do 40% water changes on 10 tanks and fill with outside hose, in a little over an hour.

I like the pipe idea, I have a setup like that with a 3/4" id hose,. I use it mainly for filling the tanks, that way the hose doesnt fall out.

Great idea, anything to make enjoying our hobby even more enjoyable.

Thanks this will allow me to drain and fill tanks at the same time so I dont have to wait to fill. Im gonna see how fast I can do 50% changes on all my.tanks in a couple days.

And what do you do about actual vacuuming?

Just 5 gallon bucket and an ordinary gravel vac. Not very much volume of water changed when I gravel vac.