limited water changes... next step, overkill

[Magnum Man]

so, just water changes are working out excellent right now.... several of the tanks are hard to work on. so I currently have several "wands" right now of different diameters, lengths and shapes... a basic is 30 inches long, and round in 1.5 inches in diameter, one is 36 inches long, for reaching the opposite end, on tanks that can only be serviced from an end, and one is 1 inch square, that is 36 inches long, and that I heated one end to make it 3/4 inch round, and a transition goes to 1/2 inch hose, on all the wands , a couple more 1/2 inch garden hose barbed fitting ends, and I'll be able to change these at will to the pumped suction line...

I've not used the square one yet, but that was specifically made for scraping the pest snails off the side glass, by having flat sides to the wand, and smaller diameter, for increased suction... I just had another snail hatch out, in the one tank I have issues with, so I'm looking forward to trying that one out, once the pump line prefilter, listed previously is installed ( arriving today )

I imagine, that eventually a couple much shorter micro wands would be handy for the 4 - 10 gallons, that all have shrimp in, but more thought is needed there, I may have to reduce down to air line diameter, to have the control needed, not to suck up the shrimp...

this whole system is so nice, I should have done this long ago, it sure takes the physical work and time, out of tank maintenance

 

[Magnum Man]

the snail trap is completed for the gravel vacuum set up... this will also stop gravel or any larger particles from entering the pump.... there is a small screened filter prior to the pump, that was intended to protect the pump, but this is much larger, one of my tanks has a real pest snail issue, the goal here is to suck up as many as I can each gravel vacuum...

 

[anewbie]

the snail trap is completed for the gravel vacuum set up... this will also stop gravel or any larger particles from entering the pump.... there is a small screened filter prior to the pump, that was intended to protect the pump, but this is much larger, one of my tanks has a real pest snail issue, the goal here is to suck up as many as I can each gravel vacuum...View attachment 367369

But will it work ?

 

[Magnum Man]

yea of little faith... silicone gaskets, not a friction fit, going to work like gang busters...

 

[Magnum Man]

changing over to this fiber reinforced hose on the suction side, as the regular vinyl hose is starting to suck in, when pumping on tanks next to floor, that require more suction... the top tanks syphon, so the pump doesn't doesn't have to suck as hard on those...

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