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First, I hope I'm not ripping off someone else's idea.
Here is the other project I mentioned in the Carbon Hose post. After years of having hoses flopping around and mopping up spills, I made this gadget. You simply hang it over the side of the tank. The metal part is isolated from the glass, so that isn't a worry. Attach a garden hose to the hose fitting, and either drain or fill your tank. If you want to clean the substrate, attach a flex hose where I have the intake screen attached. Lowe's has a size of reinforced flex hose that fits. I used an old HOB intake screen that happened to fit.
All of the elbows are glued to the pipe, but on the aquarium side of the device I put two slip connectors that are not glued, and a section of pipe inbetween. The section can be made shorter or longer as needed for the depth of one's tank. I used 1/2" PCV simply because I had it already, but you can make it out of any size you desire, and adapt the hose attachment from there. Lowe's sells the hose adapter in 1/2" or 3/4" sizes. As long as you seat the slip connectors completely, they shouldn't fall apart under normal water pressure.
As cheap as this is to make, one could make a second one out of 1 1/2" fittings and join it to the big blue swimming pool vacuum hose for draining the tank quickly.
Hopefully this will save someone else from cleaning up a mess.
Here is the other project I mentioned in the Carbon Hose post. After years of having hoses flopping around and mopping up spills, I made this gadget. You simply hang it over the side of the tank. The metal part is isolated from the glass, so that isn't a worry. Attach a garden hose to the hose fitting, and either drain or fill your tank. If you want to clean the substrate, attach a flex hose where I have the intake screen attached. Lowe's has a size of reinforced flex hose that fits. I used an old HOB intake screen that happened to fit.
All of the elbows are glued to the pipe, but on the aquarium side of the device I put two slip connectors that are not glued, and a section of pipe inbetween. The section can be made shorter or longer as needed for the depth of one's tank. I used 1/2" PCV simply because I had it already, but you can make it out of any size you desire, and adapt the hose attachment from there. Lowe's sells the hose adapter in 1/2" or 3/4" sizes. As long as you seat the slip connectors completely, they shouldn't fall apart under normal water pressure.
As cheap as this is to make, one could make a second one out of 1 1/2" fittings and join it to the big blue swimming pool vacuum hose for draining the tank quickly.
Hopefully this will save someone else from cleaning up a mess.
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