Tubes, extentions and stuff

[tomanystraydogs]

I am wanting to make some tubing for my water changes.

Basically some tubing that is attached to the tank that I can hook a hose up to that I can use to siphon water out then use to pump water back into the tank.

My LFS's stink, they are just holes in the wall.

Can I go to the local Home Cheapo and use PVC?

What about sealant?

Wanna make sure I dont use anything toxic.

tia

 

[RedTurquoise]

I use PVC all the time! Most of my fitting are just slip or forced, not using sealants! You can use 100% silicon though which I use to build my tanks!

There is a new pipe out! Before, houses used copper pipes for plumbing! Now they have a PVC pipe that come in 1/2" and 3/4" sizes. They work really good also! You can buy valves, t's, 90's, 45's, etc and easily connect them together using a crimping tool! I dont remember what its called right now but Home Depot has it!

If you check out my yahoo album, you can see some plumbing on my tanks!

 

[dattack]

Just buy a submersible pump and some nylon tubing and you are set.

 

[geoffgarcia2]

yeah a little plastic tubing and power head and wallah!!!

 

[dogmaiwli]

Or you could try this
http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/diy_python.php

 

[tomanystraydogs]

Thanks all.

Got every thing I needed at Lowes including an on/off valve for $8.00.

Now I simply attach a hose to the plumbing coming from the tank, attach the other end to my penguin power head and sit in in a 20 gallon container of my pre-processed water.

Works great, no holding buckets over the tank, no disturbance of the substrate or fish and no water on my hard wood floor