Aqueon Aquarium Siphon Vacuum Gravel Cleaner Medium – 9 Inches
Original price was: $12.99.$9.99Current price is: $9.99.
Price: $12.99 - $9.99
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Maintenance is a necessary part of good aquarium keeping. Routine water changes and pulling debris from gravel helps maintain a natural balance in the aquarium environment. Aqueon Siphon Vacuum Gravel Cleaners help to make this job easier and take less time. Just a simple up and down motion with the intake tube will quickly prime the siphon to begin water flow. Debris is pulled away with flowing water and disposed of while gravel falls to the bottom of the aquarium. Be sure to add Aqueon Water Conditioner when adding clean water to aquarium. Different siphon gravel vacuum sizes are available to accommodate all aquariums. Aqueon products offers a wide range of items so that you can build and maintain a healthy aquatic environment. All the essentials from fish tanks, filters, lighting, food, care, and other supplies that your pet fish needs. We make it easy for you to get your first aquarium and to grow in the hobby as you become more of a fish expert with every step you take and every new thing you learn. For those seasoned hobbyists, we are committed to aquarium product innovation so that we continue to offer products that get you excited. With the Aqueon brand, it’s all about the fish.
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Product Dimensions : 6.3 x 18.3 x 1.5 inches; 9.6 ounces
Item model number : 100106229
Department : Maintenance
Date First Available : August 18, 2004
Manufacturer : Central Garden & Pet
ASIN : B004RK1WBK
Best Sellers Rank: #25,118 in Pet Supplies (See Top 100 in Pet Supplies) #35 in Aquarium Gravel Cleaners
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Makes routine water changes easier!
Use up and down motion to start water flow
Removes dirty water and vacuums out the debris in gravel
6 foot flexible hose with clip for attaching the drain hose to the inside of a bucket
Includes: 6′ flexible hose, self priming intake tube and hose clip
Ideal for aquariums 15 to 35 gallons
Customers say
Customers find the vacuum cleaner works well, particularly for 29-gallon tanks, and appreciate its quality and ease of use, especially how easy it is to start the siphon. They praise its effectiveness at cleaning gravel and consider it good value for money. The size receives mixed feedback, with some finding it perfect for 10-gallon tanks while others say it’s too large. The suction performance and durability also get mixed reviews – while some say the suction is awesome and the hose is solid, others report it doesn’t generate enough suction for effective cleaning, and some units broke after one use.
13 reviews for Aqueon Aquarium Siphon Vacuum Gravel Cleaner Medium – 9 Inches
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Rick E Fox Jr –
Simple, good.
Basic is best. The ones with fancy gadgets fail. Stick with this.
Kayla –
Perfect for my 40 and 55 gallon turtle tanks!
It works great! I have a 40 gallon tank and a 55 gallon tank, the 40 contains 3 hatchling turtles, the 55 contains a 1 year and 3 month old snapping turtle that I rescued. She is a pig lol makes such a mess, she’s about 6 inches in diameter. Now this vacuum sucks up water nice and fast but not so fast that you can’t get all the sludge out before it drains the entire tank empty. It sucks up some gravel just enough to loosen the sludge and syphon it out of the gravel then gravel falls back to the tank floor, not to mention it didn’t clog up on me, not once. I am very pleased with this vacuum. I’ve tried others and they either empty the tank too fast, or they get clogged because the suction is too strong and it sucks the gravel ALL THE WAY UP the tube and gets clogged at the top…. (Which is extremely annoying) I’ve tried other vacuum’s and most of them are all just terrible. Some won’t even start syphoning! Even if you try and suck it through with your mouth. The size of this is perfect! The diameter of the tube opening is and inch and a half, where most others are 2 inches (unless you’re using a mini) I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS VACUUM FOR ANY TYPE OF AQUARIUM! Whether you have fish, turtles, whatever…. If you have no substrate on the bottom of your tank it’ll work, if you have gravel substrate, great! If you have even SAND I would still recommend this vacuum. It has a powerful suction but not so powerful that it’ll suck all the sand out. Hope this review helps someone! I rely on reviews just as you all do, I try to leave my most honest opinion possible to ensure you guys have something to read so you can make your purchase with knowledge of the item you’re buying!
VaporTrail –
Consider this over Sink Version
I went to Home Depot and got two garbage pails (to make igloos with the kids) – it snows enough to be a pita but not enough to make igloos) so the pails sit.My daughter wanted a fish tank for her birthday and we got 36 gal. one.I have two 3500 gal Koi Ponds that I have slowly learned how to maintain but the fish tank was new.This works GREAT with the garage pails. (I messed up and didn’t have the arrow going in the right direction on the bulb – Doh – quick fix)I had put down a layer of (???) whatever it is called so plants can grow under the gravel. So I was worried this would suck up the gravel and expose that stuff. Nope. It moves the gravel around a little but leaves it in (more or less) place. BUT OMG – the poop. We have had the tank about 1 1/2 weeks, I was amazed at the amount of poop this thing was sucking up. Of course the fish see it too and try to eat it through the clear tube. (be careful putting the tube in as some of my bolder fish go right up to it and I worry about sucking them in)It works really well – I could see how you might get so focused at the gunk coming up that you might over fill the bucket or pail.BUY THIS OVER SINK VERSION:I am always using the gunk from the ponds to feed my plants around the yard. It works GREAT. So with this device I do the same thing. Rather than pouring all that free fertilizer down the drain, I take it out and pour on the flower beds. (I am not to sure about using INSIDE the house) as the smell might be too much.Cons: my tube is kinked – really doesn’t effect flow much but there is no way to undo it.IN SHORT:Glad I got this and resisted the desire to get the sink model.
Greg G –
Good Deal
Good product, works as advertised, and cheaper than pet stores
Jnfire –
Challenging
Did the job but was very messy and took several tries. I have a smaller aquarium (5 gal) so this was very hard to use. Maybe it works better if you have a tall and bigger aquarium?
Matthew Zeller –
No flow
I normally use a different brand but it isnât available on Amazon so I decided to tried this one. Worst gravel cleaner Iâve ever used. Iâm pretty experienced with these types of tools and I simply could not get the water to flow on its own using the primer. Unfortunately I had to cut down the very long hose to be manageable with my tank so Iâm pretty sure I canât return it.
Leo Lovah –
Great value and performance
A wonderfully simple and easy to use tool for maintaining a healthy aquarium. Use this unit for both a 20 and 8 gallon aquarium. So simple, just place the hose clip on the side of your drain bucket, place the end of the hose into the clip to keep the hose from accidentally falling out of your bucket, place the vacuum tube into your aquarium and start the flow by gently shaking the tube up and down a few times until the flow starts. I pinch the drain hose to adjust the flow rate as I maneuver the vacuum tube around the substrate of my aquariums. The design of this unit also insures you do not accidentally suck up your tank inhabitants since the tube is intended to remove water and detritus from the substrate and not in the open water column. Highly recommended for great aquarium husbandry.
Eric Red Howie –
Overall I love it even though it’s slightly different than I was expecting
Way better at cleaning my tank than my old one. I was expecting it to have a hand pump to start the suction but this just relies on doing a strange jiggling motion to start the suction. I didn’t like it at first but it was able to do such a good job at sucking up large chunks of algae and not getting clogged that I have decided to keep and like it. Not having the hand pump also means one less thing to break (which is what happened to my old siphon). Anyways, if you are okay with having to jiggle it to get the siphon going then, by all means, give this a try, I was not disappointed in it.
Daniel Medel –
Excelente precio por este articulo, llego completo y en buen estado ademas el tamaño de la manguera es adecuada a lo que necesito y de buen material, lo que no me convencio hasta ahora es la valvula que siento que es un plastico que en un uso muy constante se puede romper ya que no es muy elastico que digamos
Alda –
Really love this cleaning vacuum. It takes at least 10-15 minutes off my cleaning time.
leppardfan –
works great, provided your empty the water into something that is lower than the tank level, if your sink is higher, you’d have to pump pretty much all the water out. I usually just pump it out the window into the garden, once you get a flow, it pretty much drains itself, but pump the bulb to get a good suction on the pebbles to clean them, than let the water flow by itself out. I had to pump it into the sink yesterday due to a winter storm, the flow did not go into the sink, had to keep pumping the bulb, arms are quite tired pumping every drop of water out of the tank. Will pump it into a bucket next time.
Erick mac –
es tal cual lo anuncian, tiene sistema antiregreso y funciona a la perfeccion vale la pena a comprar a diferencia de otras marcas que no tienen el sistema antiregreso y ademas un gancho para sujetarlo al acuario y no perder el control de la manguera
C Brownrigg –
Excellent water syphon for lager fish tanks comes with a bucket clip too. The syphon is easy to put to get her and use long enough tube for even the tallest of tanks