Aqueon Aquarium Siphon Vacuum Gravel Cleaner Medium - 9 Inches

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.

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!

Works as intended. Just came kinked have to warm a bit to keep it from being so still and not stay where you need it too

Basic is best. The ones with fancy gadgets fail. Stick with this.

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?

I needed something that would remove a majority of the water during water changes while still cleaning the debris from the bottom of a 55 gallon turtle tank without gravel. This thing is awesome!! I was wary of it initially because most gravel vacuums only work with tanks that have some type of substrate, but took a chance & glad I did. Worth every penny if you consider it being a back-saver: I've attached a longer hose that I got from the hardware store & the water & junk just goes out the window. No more hauling buckets!!! Like another reviewer, I had to put it down after my first attempt & return to it the next day. Once I got it started, it worked like a champ & just pulled the water out without me having to continue squeezing the bulb. I also used it in my 29 gallon freshwater tank with gravel & the vacuum worked so much better than any I've used in the past. I actually walked away from it a few times & it just continued pumping water out on its own- even with only about two inches left! I don't know about it being able to move 30 gallons in five minutes, but I did notice that the vacuum worked faster on the bigger 55g turtle tank w/o substrate than it did on the 29g with substrate. BUY IT! Your back will thank you.

If I could give it zero stars, I would! This is the second one I’ve bought in the last 6 months. They are terrible! The priming bulb is so stiff that it’s extremely difficult to get the air pocket out and a good water flow going. Once I do get the water flowing, it’s so slow that the poop doesn’t even make it out of the cylinder and out of the tank. I had one of these for 20 years and used it every water change with no problems until the membrane in the primer broke and I was forced to replace it with these cheaply made defects. Clearly the quality of Aqueon has gone down hill over the last several decades! Now I will be forced to look for another brand to buy for my THIRD gravel cleaner. Thanks for nothing Aqueon!

Good product, works as advertised, and cheaper than pet stores

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

Really love this cleaning vacuum. It takes at least 10-15 minutes off my cleaning time.

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.

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

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