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.

Way better at cleaning my tank than my old one. I was expecting it to have a hand pump to start the suction but this just relies on doing a strange jiggling motion to start the suction. I didn't like it at first but it was able to do such a good job at sucking up large chunks of algae and not getting clogged that I have decided to keep and like it. Not having the hand pump also means one less thing to break (which is what happened to my old siphon). Anyways, if you are okay with having to jiggle it to get the siphon going then, by all means, give this a try, I was not disappointed in it.

Restart, but absolutely wonderful, wonderful product to clean out your tank. The only reason why this was reverted to a 3 star is because they use a round tube for siphoning, and they should make it a square tube to help hit all areas of the tanks, including the corners. And edges

Easy to clean my 29 gallon aquarium. Easy to start suction: place the siphon in the water, let it fill with water, lift out of the water until it starts to flow, be ready to pinch off hose, place back in the water and allow it to start flowing, clean gravel, pinch hose to stop flow. Easy-peasy!!! Doesn’t suck up the gravel, just the waste in the gravel.

This does absolutely nothing. All it did was stir everything up in my tank. The suction wouldn’t get going at all and I followed instructions to a T.

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

Works as described. Just make sure you don’t accidentally suck one of the fish into the tube and spend 3 hours trying to get its stuck body out only realizing after that it probably died in a couple minutes or less. Not that that happened to me, but you get what I’m saying.

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

Funciona bien, práctico y eficiente

Super práctico, no es muy resistente, se sale la boquilla de unión con la manguera y en el mejor de los casos succiona aire.