- Takes the mess out of water changing
- Switches effortlessly from a gravel vacuum to a water changer, by a twist of a valve
- Avoid the heavy, messy buckets with this all in one water changer
Product Description
Take all the hassle out of routine aquarium water changes and gravel cleaning with this awesome water change kit. Each kit includes a durable plastic gravel vacuum with an attachable hose; as well as an easy faucet connector kit for attaching your vacuum and water changer directly to your home faucet. Design is durable for years of use. Simple flow valve allows you to switch quickly from a gravel vacuum to a water changer. Special splash control helps reduce dirty water splashing in the sink. No more dragging heavy buckets throughout your house; keep it simple with the Aqueon Water Changer!
Aquarium Water Changer - 25 ft.
Tags: awesome water, gravel vacuum, water, Changer, Aquarium, aquarium water, gravel
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I own both this and the Python equivalent and it is painfully obvious that the Aqueon is way better made. The Python leaks horribly at the faucet connection and has snapped apart from the faucet multiple times. They’re basically the same product, but the Aqueon is better quality and so I recommend it.
My husband and I purchased a fish tank and needed to do a water change. Went to PetSmart to get a Python and they said they were discontinuing the line. So we went to PetLand and purchased the Aqueon. It worked great until we moved and now the tank is, oh I’d say a foot, too far for the water changer to work. So we went looking for an extention, like Python has, and it does not exist. This is why it is second best.
PS – We like all the other products though
I bought this because I have sciatica and arthritis in my back and knees. It’s hard for me to carry five gallon buckets (which is what I have) from the sink to my tank and then lift them up to pour in. Till I’m done, I have trouble walking because of one of them flaring up. Using the water changer, for once I didn’t hurt when I was finished. It’s the first time I’ve used something like this, and it works wonderfully. I love it. My cats love it too. LOL
When I bought this thing my first thought was how do you get the chlorine out of the water? So I called the company and was told to add the chemicals after I filled the tank and it would work right away……wrong. We have a lot of chlorine in our water down here in Miami, and it ended up killing my fish. Not only that, but as I was standing there with it hooked up to my bathroom sink, it dawned on me that all that putrid bacteria infested aquarium water was sloshing up into the same faucet we use to brush our teeth in. I now just use it as a siphon without hooking it up to the sink and am back to the buckets. Learned the hard way.
I was very much looking forward to the reduced water change hassle I expected from this device, but it really didn’t deliver.
The valve assembly at the sink (as indicated by another reviewer) is very prone to leaking. This has two negative effects, the obvious one being that water sprays around the sink while you’ve got the valve at the far end turned off.
The second drawback to this poor seal is that it injects air into the line in some situations. Air and vacuum do not coexist, so I had to spend a lot of time purging air from the 25′ hose in order for the device to create adequate suction for vacuuming a tank.
For small tanks the design is somewhat more unworkable due to another shortcoming: after you’ve vacuumed the gravel in your six-gallon tank and want to refill it, what is the hose full of? Water and crud from the vacuuming you just did. If you reverse direction and fill the tank immediately, much of that crud comes right back down the hose and back into your tank. For a larger tank, the solution would be to give it a little time sucking just clear water out after vacuuming to flush the crud all the way through the hose, but on a small tank you may not have so much water left that you want to do that. This would be true of this type of design from any manufacturer.
Finally, of course, temperature control of the water after 25′ feet of host travel is error-prone. By the time you feel the result of a temperature change get to the end of the hose, you have a lot of water to flush out before your readjusted temperature makes it to the tank. Again, this would be true of this design from any manufacturer.
In the end, the Aqueon Water Changer suffers both from problems inherent in the basic design, and the poor construction of the sink assembly makes things worse.
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