Battery Powered Hoover!

[scottca]

Hi All,

Just wondering if the battery powered hoovers are any good / better than the traditional syphons? - It seems to hoover up the debris and collects it within a bag, Would these be ok for my tropical tank, i noticed on the label it says for coldwater only but wondered what impact it would have on tropical (is it the motor sound / vibrations that would aggrovate my fish?)

Just thinking its a quick way of giving the tank a clean without doing a full blown water change? Anyone used one?

Thanks,

Craig

 

[backtotropical]

Check out this thread from a few days ago. It might help you. Here

 

[community begginer]

i used one but it seems to kick up more of teh debree than it sucked up..... the best way woulkd be a normal syphon.... the hoovers do a good job at sucking upo debree but in teh end you still have a tank full of old water. better to use a syphon and suck the crap up and change water at the same time... make it fresh for your fishies. dirty water is yucky...
just some thaughts,
community

 

[nukeonekitty]

I would just stick with the siphon vac, it's simple, nothing can break and it gets the job done.

 

[Darkstar]

Syphons and hoovers both perform the same function but have different benefits.

The hoovers wok great when you just want to hoover up the crap without doing a waterchange and they work pretty well imo. For the person who claims they kick up more crap than collect, I would say either you bought a crap one, or you weren't very good at using it. I have them for all my tanks and they work fine...