Equipment Review and Discussion :: Question regarding Python No-Spill syphon.

[Rickiew04]

Ok, i just used mine last night to fill my take. The take is in my basement, and I ran the hose up my stairs and into the laundry room sink. It filled the tank very well, but I had a hard time getting the standing water out of the line. I had to pretty much help it move up the tubing by lifting different segments. How exactly am I supposed to do this? And, will this be a problem when i'm trying to empty my tank?

[steve]

You will not be able to properly drain the tank if its below the sink. Is there a drain in the basement that you can have the water go?

[Rickiew04]

Yea...i could probably rig up something for the basement, but its going to be a pain in the butt. I was hoping the water pressure would create enough of a vaccum to suck the water up. So pretty much it's a waste of time running my water when it really doesn't create enough suction to do anything. I could have just bought a hose.

[steve]

That was the same problem I had, though I wasn't trying to drain it up a flight of stairs. Maybe we got it wrong

[Rickiew04]

I've been getting my tank ready cause I plan on getting my little guy within the next couple days, and I put a floating log in the tank. Well, I thought I had rinsed it off good enough, but a ton of little floaties littered the water after I put it in. So I tried using my python hose to at least clean the water. But it couldn't have even sucked a particle of sand. What a waste!!!

[SpotsMama]

Is there a window in the basement? Maybe you could use the python like a syphon and let it drain out the window.

[Rickiew04]

Yea...but they're up high..so it wouldn't work. I just wish I would have known that these things really dont generate much, if any, suction from the water pressure. I bought it because I thought it would provide a really easy way of emptying my tank. I probably would have been better off just to buy a piece of hosing. I have one other idea though. I heard of a thing that hooks to a drill, and you can hook the water lines up to it and it will create a suction. My grandpa said he used one to suck water out of a pool before. So if I can find something like that...then hopefully I'll be ok.

[SpotsMama]

Good luck. If it doesn't work I suppose you could get a pump.

[Rickiew04]

Yea...well...the basement is only temporary...until this semester ends for college, and I can find time to build a stand.

[Evelyn]

Hi,
My neighbor has his two turtles in the dining room and uses the the base sink to drain the tank and full, the feetage is far. I will ask him how long it takes him to drain the tank and fill again. I don't know why he just doesn't use the kitchen sink. Running water up the stairs seems like it would take for ever.
Evelyn

[N4784N R4613]

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[adam85491]

What exactly is this siphon thing and how does it work. I get the impression it is a little tube thing that sucks waste and things out of the tank and then yuo shut it off, or do I have the wrong idea entirely?

[Rickiew04]

http://www.pythonproducts.com/nospill.htm This is the thing I bought. If you have a place where your sink is level with your tank, then this will probably be very helpful for you.

Thank you N4784N R4613!! That is the type of thing I was looking for.

[HERSHEY]

I have a siphon and I love it. My is a 100ft and it works great I go through 3 rooms with it. It takes a few times to get use to working it. Did you make sure you have the value in the down position and the cold water on high when you were trying to siphon the tank out? and when you are done just lift the end out of the tank and the water will be sucked out of the line. then I just leave mine hooked up and start rolling it and force any water out into the sink then disconnect. Fyi it will hook up to any faucet even by chance to you have a laundry hookup in the basement with water supply that the water could go to the drain in the floor..

[Rickiew04]

Well...I think my problem right now is that I have a temporary place in my basement for my tank. And my laudry room sink (upstairs) is the one I'm using (I don't have a sink in my basement). So the python isn't powerful enough to lift the water that high. I think once I get the permanent place set up in my room, the python will work great because the tank will be level with the sink I will use.