Who here uses the python?

[FishFreaks]

we use the python and love it! yay no more spilling!

 

[Undawada]

Python, but only recently. Up until this month I had been using buckets.

 

[Bloo]

OK, well I've been using the bucket siphon method since forever. But recently (might be due to old age creeping on ) my back just cannot take the lifting and heaving of heavy buckets of water - especially many a week. I actually had to take a day off work last week as my back / neck just completely gave in and locked up solidly

So I've been contemplating this Python "thingy magig" but can't quite figure out how I'm supposed to regulate the temperature and dechlorinator

 

[Isis_Nebthet]

I don't use either. I use a sumersible pump with a hose the goes outside.

 

[FishFreaks]

OK, well I've been using the bucket siphon method since forever. But recently (might be due to old age creeping on ) my back just cannot take the lifting and heaving of heavy buckets of water - especially many a week. I actually had to take a day off work last week as my back / neck just completely gave in and locked up solidly

So I've been contemplating this Python "thingy magig" but can't quite figure out how I'm supposed to regulate the temperature and dechlorinator

there a a piece that you hook up right to the sink. the bottom of that piece you can pull down, this will allow you to adjust the water temp and siphon the substrate. if you turn and push it back up, this will allow you to fill the tank back up. and you just put the dechlorinator in as you go along, or all right before you begin.

 

[Bloo]

Mmmm - sounding very tempting and rather easy indeed

 

[OohFeeshy]

Nope, buckets for me The biggest I've got is a 20, so buckets are fine. I need another one actually, one's OK but two would be easier.

 

[john5748]

OK, well I've been using the bucket siphon method since forever. But recently (might be due to old age creeping on ) my back just cannot take the lifting and heaving of heavy buckets of water - especially many a week. I actually had to take a day off work last week as my back / neck just completely gave in and locked up solidly

So I've been contemplating this Python "thingy magig" but can't quite figure out how I'm supposed to regulate the temperature and dechlorinator

there a a piece that you hook up right to the sink. the bottom of that piece you can pull down, this will allow you to adjust the water temp and siphon the substrate. if you turn and push it back up, this will allow you to fill the tank back up. and you just put the dechlorinator in as you go along, or all right before you begin.

can you buy these pythons in the uk?

With an instruction manual

 

[parker313]

LOVE my python. It was the best fish accessory purchase I've made. I did the bucket method for several years with other tanks and I *hated* water changes. Now, I can get all the water I need changed in both my 46g and my 10g in 10 minutes

 

[tttnjfttt]

This was the best investment I have made for my tank. I dislocated my shoulder 6 weeks ago, and water chanees are impossible for me without it right now!!! It really makes life soooo much easier, i recomend it for anyone with a tank. I've even used it n my 5 gal hospital tank.

(sorry if this incoherent,my shoulder is really bad today and I sm on Vicodin)

 

[Ethos]

I use and always have used "the bucket method"
The bathrooms just across the hallway, so its like 4 feet from my bedroom door.

 

[Whiskerz]

I use and always have used "the bucket method"
The bathrooms just across the hallway, so its like 4 feet from my bedroom door.

Ditto!

My bathroom is right beside my bedroom so I don't have too far to go, and the biggest tank I have is only a 38 gallon so the buckets are no problem at all

 

[Doggfather]

I'm still using the good old bucket and sython, if your careful, you don't spill much anyway

 

[Angry_Platy]

I got the python from a USA friend on here last year and I would NEVER go back to buckets

 

[SirMinion]

I'd like to try one, but the water source is at the other end of the house to the tanks so I'd need one that's 50 feet long.

But as I've never seen them for sale anywhere, it's all academic anyway.