Gravel/substrate Hoover/cleaners

[wetdog]

evening all, can someone recommend me a competatively priced gravel/substrate sucker cleaner thingy for use on sand and gravel?

we currently have a length of tube fastened to a triangular tube around a foot or so long, that works on a syphon action. and it just doesnt cut the mustard. hoovered my fish poo yesterday and most of it barely made it halfway up the gadget, let alone out the tank.

mick.

 

[ellena]

There's one made by biorb which is fab, and you can also get what seems to be the exact same one, cheaper, in different packaging at most small LFSs. It's a length of corrugated hose with a bulb at one end which you squeeze to get it going. It also has a pull on/off gravel vac attachment, like a wider sction of tube, although I've never used that. They're about £4 round here

 

[Monty-2010]

http/cgi.ebay.co.uk/Aquarium-Gravel-Cleaner-Syphon-Siphon-/180474759111?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item2a052247c7#ht_564wt_939

this is the one i use, it's pretty good

 

[ian]

There's one made by biorb which is fab

thats the one i use and its loads better than a normal syphon.

 

[wetdog]

cheers guys

ian, monty, that seems like the one ellena is describing.

mick.

 

[ellena]

Yep, that's the one. I have a couple and one of them got a hole in and I patched it up with electricians tape and it's still going strong
It has a little flap in the bulb and if that gets wedged open with plants/gravel etc, it won't work. Just pour water in from the other end and squirt it out by squeezing the bulb until you've cleared the blockage and it's good as new