How Do You Guys Hide Airline Tubing?

[Ethos]

I was just woundering how you guys hide/hold down airline tubing?

I just added a cheap bubler to my 55G tonight, with much frustratuion.
I just decided to put one of the dec rocks ontop of a bit, the hide the rest under the gravel.
The tube folloewed the filter intake up to the top. Works decently.
What do you guys do?

 

[qwikimpss]

Easy, I don't use bubblers! If you were planning on something with airlines when u set up the tank you could cut a piece of tubing to go up and down one corner of the tank and silicone it in place. Then you can simply attach the pump to one end and off of the other end a small piece to go to whatever device youre using....it's permanent but you can disconnect it and it will barely be noticable!

 

[Fishist]

I use plants and rocks to hide all equipment such as air tubes, heater and filter as best as possible.

 

[Dorkhedeos]

easiest way is to not use it. i dont bother hiding my stuff anyways

 

[freddyk]

easiest way is to not use it

You mean just remove the filter? That's not much of a solution and sponge filters can be useful.

I can't help you either though, other then Fishlists method. I don't worry about it since there's a lot of better stuff distracting the eye anyway.

 

[Hels]

for airlines... i usually put the actually air stone inside a plant pot whch is on its side, then attach the tubing through the the hole in the botton of the plant pot (which faces toward the back of the tank), this weighs the airstone down and the bubbles come out the front of the pot, then put some tall growing plants behind to hide the tubing..... hope that makes sense!

 

[The-Wolf]

I have seen green airline tubing with plastic plant leave attached
(by penn-plax I think) that makes it look like a plant rather than an
air tube.

Myself I don't hide it, it is just there.

 

[Dubby]

Plants is the way to go. Vallis growing in front of tubing is a simple way to hide tubing.

 

[Dragonscales]

I don't bother hiding any of my equiptment either. It makes it easier to tell if anything is broken down or not.

 

[kat and james]

we hide the tubing and the air stick (i think that is what it is called.. long thing that the bubbles bubble out of ) under the gravel, and then the tube just blends in with down pipes which attach to the under gravel filter.. dunno what we'll do when we no longer have ugf!!

 

[Fella]

Whack it in the corner and put plants in front of it. Easy peasy.

 

[Ethos]

My tank is a African Mbuna Cichlid tank, so I can't have plants. I like the look of a more natural tank (well, as natural as I can get it) so I wanted a bubler. I got a buble wand, but it doesnt hide very well (its ment to be attached to the side of the aquarium, but I didn't like it).... Its working good right now, but I spent half an hour tring to keep it down, so I'm afraid to do a water change

 

[Durbkat]

What you can do is before you set the tank up and put gravel in lay the tubing in the tank and then put the gravel in so the gravel holds it down and just leave the ned of the tube out of the gravel so you can hook up the bubble wand.

 

[Ethos]

Right, because I'm going to take my tank apart just to set up airline tubing. I'd think it'd be a great idea if my tank wasent already 2 months old!

Plus I didn't even have a pump way back then...

 

[Monte20]

What you can do is before you set the tank up and put gravel in lay the tubing in the tank and then put the gravel in so the gravel holds it down and just leave the ned of the tube out of the gravel so you can hook up the bubble wand.

Thats what I did at first. until i noticed that a small wand wasnt getting air. so i had to dig up the tubing again to fix. I never reburied it because its easier to work on and change. i just hide most of it with my genuine artificial plants and other deco. for those that dont use bubbers, like what was mentioned above, what do you use for airation? im all about learning good ideas.