The only adaptors included are for standard 3/4 inch (19mm) UK outdoor taps and the rubber universal adaptor. Very easily… as water passes through the faucet pump it creates the siphon and starts to pull water from the tank out to your sink.

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You can get a more powerful pump if desired but this did the trick for me as it gave me time to do all the other little jobs that routine maintenances needs doing.Omni Capital Retail Finance Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (register number 720279). The downside is that the only size of pressure rated hose that I could find, that I could also get male/female end fittings for, happened to be 5/8″ ID and 7/8″ OD, which is wider than either Aqueon or Python’s hose. I have the band clamps snugged down as tightly as possible and it’ll be interesting to see if I get any leakage at the ends or not. But then for me to perform a water change, it would require more than a dozen trips between my tank and sink – not to mention the struggle of carrying heavy buckets through my home.

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The most critical piece is an adaptor that connects to the male end of our hose and converts to the appropriate size (in my case, 1/2″) PVC pipe. We did like that Marina included a brass faucet adapter in the box because it won’t wear down like an adapter made from plastic. If we get another aquarium and put it in the other room, it will be simple for me to get a 50′ hose.This project isn’t for everyone, but if you like to tinker and want to make a water change system that is just right for you, then go for it. I don’t have much need to vacuum the gravel in our planted tank and was interested in something smaller that fit the scale of our nano Fluval Spec V. Luckily it's not carpeted, but there is a huge rug which got soaked, and the water seemed to triple in volume. Ordinarily when we pick which products to test, we have to choose from dozens or, in the case of our aquarium thermometer review, hundreds. I would attach gravel cleaner to the end of the hose while the water was being pumped out of tank and do a quick substrate clean and picking up debris and dead leaves etc, I put the other end of hose into a bucket in the bath and clamp hose onto bucket to stop hose from falling out of bucket and let the water run from tank into the bucket, the flow from my 600lph pump is not overpowering as anything accidentally sucked into the hose like shrimps or small fish would stay in the bucket and while water would overflow from bucket to bath.