camsoft
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
I bought a syphon kit for cleaning the tank and doing water changes. It is basically a pipe with a long plastic tube on one end. You stick it in the tank and move it up and down vigorously to get it stared. There is a clip that holds the other end of the pipe in the bucket and it can also be used to restrict the flow.
But no matter how much I pinch the cable I take out too much water and can't make much progress on the gravel. If I want to clean one quarter of the tank I end up taking out about 25% of the water in the process.
If I pinch the cable to restrict the water they it does not have enough suction to suck up the detritus.
Are they techniques to this or better tools for cleaning gravel, what do you guys do?
But no matter how much I pinch the cable I take out too much water and can't make much progress on the gravel. If I want to clean one quarter of the tank I end up taking out about 25% of the water in the process.
If I pinch the cable to restrict the water they it does not have enough suction to suck up the detritus.
Are they techniques to this or better tools for cleaning gravel, what do you guys do?