Gravel Cleaners

[Number 1 Jasper]

Hello i havent been on here for a while .

I use a gravel cleaner , i find it a bit of a bind to use & was wondering if anyone has ever used the battery type that dont take water out , just flush it through a filter .

any help / advice anyone ? any types you reccomend ?

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Hello i havent been on here for a while .

I use a gravel cleaner , i find it a bit of a bind to use & was wondering if anyone has ever used the battery type that dont take water out , just flush it through a filter .

any help / advice anyone ? any types you reccomend ?

No One ?

 

[morgan]

Hi, I use a battery gravel vac in between water changes. Mine is a Hagen. I bought it last year from Wilsons or Pets At Home and it cost about £14.99. Don't buy the little bags for it, you can use cut up tights (pantyhose). Not my idea, I read it on here. HTH. PS You can also use them for water changes by adding some tubing. I only did that once when I had a difficult-to-start syphon. You can turn the power off once the syphon starts.

 

[ferco]

interesting so it just sucks up the gunk and no water? that would be so much easier...

 

[TammyLiz]

Not a replacement for water changes, though. Why not change your water while you vacuum? It kills two birds with one stone, so to say.

 

[Qays]

i would say: Vacuum when your changing the water! removes gunk and water at the same time (like tammyliz said)

 

[dgwebster]

ah, but for how often i need to vacuum gunk poo and uneaten food i've experimented with etc, id be doing water changes every other day

currently i use my gravel vac siphon, passing the water through a fine net into a bucket then tipping the bucket back into the tank.

these sound great though, as my ADFs are only small and getting the correct amount of bloodworm is often difficult.

and sometimes i have noses turned up at the food i offer. little buggers

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Not a replacement for water changes, though. Why not change your water while you vacuum? It kills two birds with one stone, so to say.

Tammy ,
No i agree 100% i have a gravel syphon that i use when i change my water every week , i would just like something that i can use mid week to clear the gravel a bit WITHOUT removing water & these sound like the ideal thing .

 

[morgan]

I find my battery gravel vac very useful between water changes. I have a 12" Common Pleco who makes quite a mess. The vac also picks up snails which the ordinary syphon tends not to IME. I'm off to vac the gravel when I've finished on here. My tank is 2 feet deep and the gravel vac reaches fine.

 

[bunjiweb]

I have the Eheim battery operated vac.....

It's crap.

Use a proper syphon that removes the gunk from your tank completely then top the tank back up..

Ben

 

[Bloo]

I have a battery operated gravel vac - it's in the loft packed away. Waste of money and junk. I found that it might catch quite a lot of surface poo on sand - but as the water pushed with force through the little net thing, it just breaks down the poo particles and pushes it right back in to the water ! What's the point in that ?

dgwebster, that sounds like way too much effort. Why remove water and then just dump it back in ? Why not just siphon and replace with clean water ?

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

I have a battery operated gravel vac - it's in the loft packed away. Waste of money and junk. I found that it might catch quite a lot of surface poo on sand - but as the water pushed with force through the little net thing, it just breaks down the poo particles and pushes it right back in to the water ! What's the point in that ?

dgwebster, that sounds like way too much effort. Why remove water and then just dump it back in ? Why not just siphon and replace with clean water ?

Any one tried the electric type ?

I find my battery gravel vac very useful between water changes. I have a 12" Common Pleco who makes quite a mess. The vac also picks up snails which the ordinary syphon tends not to IME. I'm off to vac the gravel when I've finished on here. My tank is 2 feet deep and the gravel vac reaches fine.

what make do you have ? Because that is why i want mine , to use BETWEEN water changes

 

[Bloo]

Any one tried the electric type ?

Such as (can you give an example?) ? I was not aware an electric plug in type existed.

 

[morgan]

It's a Hagen. Cost £14.99 last year. You can also add tubing and use it as a syphon to actually remove water. You can turn the power (battery) off when the syphon starts. You can get them online but to save p&p I got mine either from Wilsons or Pets at Home (get those two mixed up).

 

[Number 1 Jasper]

Any one tried the electric type ?

Such as (can you give an example?) ? I was not aware an electric plug in type existed.

http/www.essentialaquatics.co.uk/acatalo...el_cleaner.html