Love My Eheim, Hate The Tubing Color!

[KISSfn]

Why did Eheim choose the color green for their tubing? Was it to stress me out? Here's my story: The other day after some reading on here about filter maintanance I decided it was time to give the Eheim Ecco Pro 60 a once over. So I disconnect it and take it to the sink for my inspection. I notice a build up of algae on the impeller housing so I give the housing, impeller and all related parts a good algae removal. I hook it back up, prime it and plug it in..............Massive volumes of algae come blasting out of the outflow tube to my utter horror! I wish somebody could have taken a picture of my face at that very moment. You never saw somebody lunge for a power cord and disconnect it faster than I did that day! Turns out my cleaning had greatly improved the impeller's power thereby blasting the camouflaged algae hidden in the green Eheim tubing! I was amazed at the huge amount of junk I was able to extract out of those 2 tubes! I should have taken a picture. So to those of you with the pretty green Eheim tubing i say, clean often, or suffer the consequences!

 

[StandbySetting]

You could switch to colourless hosing if you wish, a filter pipe brush may also be of benefit to you.

 

[KISSfn]

I have a filter tube brush but it wasn't long enough (naturally) so I came up with a brilliant (in my opinion) solution! I snaked a fish tape through the entire length of the tube. When it was all the way through I attached my double headed brush and pulled it through achieving a two brush scrub with one pull. I always wondered why they called it fish tape! Thanks!

 

[CrazyAirborne]

i think filter tubes are that color specifically so you dont see the build up, otherwise you'd have to clean out the tubing all the time, imo.

 

[KISSfn]

I agree!

 

[Mikaila31]

That happens to every canister not just eheims. Rena has black input and output plastic tubes. The hoses though are clear. Some planted-tank people like to use the glass lily pipes so its not JUST the OP that is bothered by filter tubes.