Electronic gravel cleaners

[maxpayne40]

Has anyone used the battery operated gravel cleaners and are they recommended?.

[Monolicious]

In my opinion that are not worth the money as they tend to distribute the waste back into the tank and not the mesh bag. I am talking about the Eheim model as this is the only one I have tried.

Nothing beats the good old garden hose connected to the gravel vac.

[Decapper]

It works well for my cherry shrimp tank.. For my Bare bottom tank, well, unless you dont want to wrap your lips around a hose it could be good as they come with a hose attachment as well as the micro filter bag. Would not use filter bag on bare bottom.

[ILLUSN]

Waste of time PBS money the idea of the water change is to smash down your level of DOC's a gravel vac will just reeve the big stuff and leave the harmful stuff behind

[Decapper]

Well i have a small 20l cherry shrimp tank... And the ability to suck & not suck at the push of a button has saved a few hundred shrimp over the time and kept my bare bottom shrimp tank clean and tidy and nearly best $12 spent.

but besides that a waste ;)