Python Aquarium Replacement Pump

I've been using the same Python no-spill and fill unit for almost 30 years. The original pump finally broke and I replaced it. Not a bad record for things milled from plastic. There is no comparison between the work of changing the water in a 75-gallon tank using the Python versus using a garden hose and buckets. From 10 gallons to 100 gallons plus, a Python no-spill and fill is the ONLY sane way to do a water change.

I had one like this, but it was manufactured by Lee's. It broke due to me misplacing it and putting weight on it. I read some reviews of this python pump and decided to buy it. The plastic is very cheap-feeling. I tried to screw it on my adapter, the one which changes faucet threads to hose threads, and the threads started to strip on the pump. I checked everything and it still did the same thing. Took off the python and hooked up the threaded part of the Lee's to the adaapter and it had no problems. After 1 use, the python threads looked worse than the years of use I got from the Lee's. This one is not going to last, but I will use it till it's exhausted it's life cycle. Stay away from this garbage and get a Lee's pump valve.

Edit:

6/23/2013

After having this for less than a year and only using it 3 times at the most, this thing broke. After the last time I used it, it was sitting in my cleaning kit bucket. I found it this morning and the part that connects to the faucet was broken because it split. There was nothing in there besides the hose, so nothing could have broken it.

This stuff is garbage and I think what I will do is make my own out of PVC or copper piping from homedepot.

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Replacement for broke one. This one also squirts by the neck. Always disconnect hose before moving the hose, so it doesn't wiggle the pump, and break it. FINGER TIGHT ONLY!!! or you will wear down the cheap, plastic screw grooves.

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The valve that had come with my Python broke, so I needed a replacement. This is the same as the original part, and works great.

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This works well and is a replacement for the orginal Python pump. Design appears unchanged. The fitting of the siphon unit into the pump remains the same and is the weakness in the design. This joint can come loose and the pump fails to work. Over tightening of the joint causes failure in the siphon and required replacement. Be gentle in tighening the siphon into the pump or you will have to replace it like we did. In other words, be gentle with it.

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