
Regular tubing from a hardware store can serve as a replacement if the tubing of your turtle’s filtration system is damaged. Learn about the tubing and pieces for the filtration system for your turtle from an industry professional in this free pet care video.
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"Alright, what we have here is the hosing for our fluval. This is a special hosing that comes with the fluval though, to be fair, if this gets damaged or something, you can just go to like Lowe's or any other hardware store and buy any kind of rubber tubing or, I'm sorry, PBC tubing. But this guy is going to stick right into, it sticks right over that flow control part that we're talking about, OK. They come in one piece here. You're going to have to cut it in half to use your tubes. And then you have these pieces, these are little curved pieces that will hold the tubing in tact over the corner of the lip of the tank, see how it's got a lip there. Your tubing goes in there and shoots it down. And then you have your, this is your inflow for the tubing. This will connect to the other side of your tube. This is where the water flows into the fluval. See how it's got this little grate? Water flows in there, OK. Up the tube, up your piping into the fluval. This is your outflow right here. And it comes out the other direction. You want this to be relatively the same height. So we're putting it in your aquarium. Same height as the water level, the outflow tubing. The inflow tube should go down relatively towards the bottom. You don't want it all the way to the bottom, but close to it. OK, what that is going to do is it's going to create agitation on the water level and stop it from getting a film, and it's going to keep your clean water from not entering right back into your fluval."
Expert Village: Cordell Jacques
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