CatLover
Fish Addict
My Python syphon was great when I had gravel, but I don't know what's up with it cleaning sand.
I know in order to vaccuum sand, you need to swirl it a bit over the debris so you won't suck up a bunch of sand. My problem is that the syphon seems to not have enough sucking power to get anything up. I have the faucet on full blast, with as much suction as possible happening, but when I swirl around the debris, it goes up about 1/4 inside the tube, and falls back down to the sand.
I have to get it to that 1/4 point and then turn the tube upside down so the debris will fall toward the hose end so it can be sucked down the hose. It's annoying!
Am I doing something wrong?
Haha! I just noticed the pun in the title. That was not intented, I swear
I know in order to vaccuum sand, you need to swirl it a bit over the debris so you won't suck up a bunch of sand. My problem is that the syphon seems to not have enough sucking power to get anything up. I have the faucet on full blast, with as much suction as possible happening, but when I swirl around the debris, it goes up about 1/4 inside the tube, and falls back down to the sand.
I have to get it to that 1/4 point and then turn the tube upside down so the debris will fall toward the hose end so it can be sucked down the hose. It's annoying!
Am I doing something wrong?
Haha! I just noticed the pun in the title. That was not intented, I swear