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Hi,

I'm looking at the hoses attached to my canister filters and thinking that they are starting to get a bit gunked up, must be almost time to clean them.

How do you clean your canister hoses? Do you have special tools for the job? I'm looking for any tips on how to make this task a little less fiddly.

G_T



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you can at least here in the states buy really long bottle brushies looking things. Your LFS should have them in a pack of 3 or 4 different sizes. Just use your vac tank water in a bucket and stuff it in and move it in and out, flip the hose go throught the other side and do it again.

If you can find them in AU Troppo let me know.

Djrichie
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butterfly-shaped wad of chux cloth tied to thick fishing line tied to a smallish diamter round fishing sinker.

Drop sinker through tube, get fishing line and pull the cloth through Rinse and repeat. Don't over-stuff your cloth and make sure you tie it in the middle or it might slip out and get stuck. Rinse with a garden hose in high to shift the niggly bits

You can get the snake-like brushes but they are not always long enough and, IME anyhoo, generally miss the middle. If you have shortish tubes and find a longish brush then you should be set The other downside is that, if you find them and they are long enough, they tend to be available in very cheap or very expensive and the cheap ones moult more than a persian cat. Get the exxy ones





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Call. that must be a AU thing witht them molting I have the same set for 7 years now. LOL but i do like your method as will. As far as them being short, yes they are but I have so many things on the lines I don't have that problem, but I can see what you mean


Djrichie
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Yeah, we tend to have a lot of cheaper brands and they are (very annoyingly) the ones that most shops will stock for the 'weirder' items with a low turnover.

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Call you stole my thunder the sinker is the only method to use. Only thing use very strong fishing line or a strong cord, then flush it out via a hose or a tap.

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Thanks for the replies everyone - I guess there's no excuse for having scungy filter hoses now

I know what I'm doing tomorrow

G_T


Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.