Hi all! I am getting very frustrated with my gravel vac. it works fine
on my small 15 gallon bedroom tank but not in my 55 gallon in the main
room. Well it kind works but weakly. It’s driving me bonkers trying to
find a way to properly gravel vac my 55-gallon. All along I have been
gravel vaccing the 55 gallon weakly with my gravel-vac and siphons but
the one corner in that tank has a layer of Mulm / detritus / gunk and
it has got my attention now that it looks like it needs to be cleaned.
I even brought out the battery powered gravel vac with poor results.
The battery powered one works in bursts and I can't figure out these
physics - it's driving me nuts! And yes - I keep the battery powered
gravel vac submerged to the water line on the device (and I even tried
deeper with nothing but poor results) and it still only works in
spurts briefly. I truly don't understand siphons and gravity, at least
I feel that way. I truly do wonder if the local physics is different
from the outside world - I mean come on, why am I having such a
problem here with something so simple? All of my hobbies a few times a
year present me with anomalous - come out of nowhere - impossible to
figure out problems. [Yells "arrrgh!" real loud] Every time I think I
have the siphon problem beat the success is very brief to none. I have
one idea left - convert my aqua clear to a powered gravel vac device
(if I remember right I think it was Andy here in the forum that has
one himself too), it will be easy because I have various sizes of hose
I can use to adapt the intake tube of the aqua clear to a gravel
cleaner, the big question is "will it work"? Anyone have a cheap
different way of gravel vaccing (my gravity is just plain not strong
enough and I don't have lower ground to use more gravity)?
