Tetra Water Cleaner Gravel Siphon for Aquariums, Easily Clean Freshwater Aquariums

Finally used it to clean my betta's tank. Was very useful. Took me a bit to really get the hang of it, but worked great. Once you create suction and the water starts flowing, just go up and down with the hollow tube. Every once in a while, press the bulb to increase the suction again and continue. I used it on a small tank, so I just kept adding water to the tank when it would get low. If you have a larger tank, you'll probably be able to use this amd not have to refill your tank. My tank was pretty dirty so that played a part in how much I had to clean it as well. Also helps if the tank is too big to move or just don't want to empty it, clean the substrate, and set it up again. Good product. Glad I got it.

I bought this to make water changes easier with my 29 gallon fish tank and it works really well. Takes water out of your tank so no more scooping it out when it’s time for a water change and also sucks up the gravel cleaning it. Worth the money ! Super easy to use , doesn’t take long at all!

It’s a pretty simple set up but works fine. The priming bulb worked great and the screen in the pickup tube is a nice touch. Didn’t leak at all seems durable for the price, and made cleaning the tank easy. A few things I cleaned my 10 with it and it’s perfect for that or maybe a 20 long. Other than that the pickup tube is short so on my 29 I had to get wet and the discharge hose would not reach the floor. So I know the label says up to 50. It would work yes but I’d get something with a bigger pickup tube and longer discharge hose for anything over a 20g.

The media could not be loaded. I couldn’t get a good video/angle of me doing a tank clean, where you could actually see the pump doing its job. I also had my 2 year old standing next to me so I couldn’t really hold my phone BUT- it definitely does its job, and quick! It drained the water of my tank really fast. It’s a great gravel cleaner too, but you’ll easily drain the tank so just prepare for a water change. This pump is strong & was super easy to figure out, all you have to do is squeeze the blue thing repeatedly. Awesome, good quality pump!Only thing is, the clip that attaches to the bucket is pretty loose on mine. It comes off easily & isn’t tight around the tube part either, so just be careful not to accidentally pull it out and spill water on your floors! I have a 5.5 gal, see photos for size reference.

Looks like great quality. Read reviews before purchase and supposedly best functional product and quality there is for basic cleaning of fish tank!

It was a little small but still work good, it took a little longer to empty my aquarium

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Works well, wish the tube was longer, as my aquarium sits up high.

Tetra Water Maintence Items for Aquariums - Makes Water Changes EasyWater Cleaner ~ "2-55 gallon" ~ $10.49Haven't used it yet but initial inspection gets a pass. The tubing, looks to be 3/8 ID 1/2 OD, is nice, not easily kinked, and came kink free. And that size tubing is a nice middle of the road for small to medium sized tanks. And the vac chamber is nice and clear so you can see what you're vaccing. That feature alone is why I chose this one over the no name models that had the same features plus a flow control valve... they all have smokey or milky tinted vac tubes which is idiotic to me. The whole reason you use these things is to vac, you would think you want to see what you're vacuuming clearly. And some of them put the screen on the bottom of the vac tube so it can't even function to swirl the substrate and separate out the detritus. And any that actually had nice clear chambers, maybe even a little longer, had no primer bulb. So this one ticked the most boxes.Anyway this one has a nice clear vac chamber and it's just long enough at around 4.5 inches to do what it needs to do in small/medium tanks with not too deep substrate. I don''t know why it couldn't be a little longer but you can't have everything. And it has a decent looking screen at the top of the chamber. Given the size of the tubing and lack of flow control you'd have to be kinking the tube to regulate flow on really small tanks under 10 gallons or the tank will be empty before you're done vaccing. And With the short-ish vac tube it seems less than ideal for anything larger or with deeper substrate.I gave the primer bulb a bunch of squeezing and torqued on the nipples a bit and it seems like it will hold together for the foreseeable future. I will say the way the nipples attach to the primer bulb seem to be female slip fittings that are glued on and you hear a little crackling glue if you distort the bulb too close to the nipples. But even with that it does hold suction and pressure just fine and if it ever came loose with age I'd have no problem redoing it with silicone if I like the vac. And the nipples on the bulb have no barbs to stop the tubing from backing off but the tubing seems to hold on fine once seated all the way on. They were just barely seated on as it came, so needed to be pushed down till they hit home, but that's no problem. And the vac chamber has a barbed nipple.The bucket clip seems like it's made from good plastic, not brittle, and I really appreciate that being included. I will search for some kind of spare valve or something to put on the bucket end of the hose because as it stands there's nothing to stop the hose from easily slipping up and out of the bucket clip... but no biggie and glad to have the clip.The one glaring omission other than a flow control which isn't really a necessity as you can kink the tube, is a rigid pipe leading up to the vac chamber so you can easily direct it around. You figure with the total length of the vac chamber being maybe 5" a simple 12" rigid piece would allow much easier control with minimal hand dunking in all the medium sized tanks and still not be so long as to be cumbersome in a 5.5 or 10 gallon, or you could just not use it if you only had tiny tanks. Either that or give us a longer vac chamber.So all in all not bad, and certainly not bad for $10. I'd be content paying a few dollars more if it came with a flow control valve and rigid stem/wand, but I get them wanting to keep it in the $10 range. And they did hit a really nice sweet spot of quality and features for the price.