AquaTech 5-15 filter???

[lute]

thanks! ok. i'll just buy a new filter. i like that one in the link.

also, the cleaner thing i have no idea how to use looks like this-


how do i use this? should i just dump it too and get another....whatever it is.

[IRescue452]

That's a gravel vac. You hook up the air hose and put the free end in a bucket then pump the vac end up and down in the water to get the syphon going. It takes some practice but its very useful if you have smaller gravel. I have two but I prefer a turkey baster in my smaller tanks. Another thing I like about underwater filters besides the lack of waterfall noise is that you can have a power outage or unplug it for maintenence without killing the bacteria. With hanging filters if the power goes out then the bacteria gets exposed to air and killed off.

[Sevaede]

That filter is pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it. We don't have one that hooks up to anything - it's all manual. What my husband does is sticks the whole straight tube down in the water and then puts most of the thin tube in there with it. One end of the thin tube goes in a bucket. He lets it unravel when the suction gets going and then just cleans the gravel. Pretty handy.

[lute]

wow. i had no idea it was something so usefull. thanks guys!