Water Hose for Cleaning and Filling your Aquarium

[troy tucker]

I don't do much vac.ing gravel but I use garden hose to drain. I use a RV hose to fill.

[johnnymisty]

Here is the hose setup I made from a old hose that the end busted. I cut the hose in half to make one for filling and one for draining. I have been using this hose for over 15 years with no problems to my fish.

I used some 1/2" CPVC with some 90's on the fill hose and an adapter to connect the hose to a faucet. I used tyraps to hold the CPVC in the 5/8" water hose.

I use the Aquem gravel sucker connected to a hose for draining. I made a adapter out of SS fittings that I had and used 1/2" SS tubing that fits in the hose of the gravel sucker.

I am thinking about changing the hose out to white RV water hose. They sell 25ft hose at Walmart for $10.00.

Adapter



Fill hose



Sucker hose

Nice though it might be benificial to put some sorta shutoff valve for the fill hose especially for someone like me my add kicks in and i forget im filling my tank till 10-15 gallons of water are on the floor

[prostreet69camaro]

Here is the hose setup I made from a old hose that the end busted. I cut the hose in half to make one for filling and one for draining. I have been using this hose for over 15 years with no problems to my fish.

I used some 1/2" CPVC with some 90's on the fill hose and an adapter to connect the hose to a faucet. I used tyraps to hold the CPVC in the 5/8" water hose.

I use the Aquem gravel sucker connected to a hose for draining. I made a adapter out of SS fittings that I had and used 1/2" SS tubing that fits in the hose of the gravel sucker.

I am thinking about changing the hose out to white RV water hose. They sell 25ft hose at Walmart for $10.00.

Adapter



Fill hose



Sucker hose