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Connecting Fluval FX5 to 17mm lily pipes?

George Farmer

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Does anyone have any experience, or have any info about connecting an FX5 to 17mm lily pipes?

The FX5 comes supplied with 25mm anti-kink ribbed hosing go I guess I'd be looking at some sort of adaptor.

To be honest I've not even opened the box so am not sure if I can replace the hose entirely?

Any thoughts welcome!

Cheers.
 
Hey George.
I tried this and found you need to entirely change the piping (that's a mixed blessing as I found it stole back 500lph in flow).
The adapters you need aren't cheap, I got mine from a pond supply place and seem to remember them being about £8 each.
Ideally you'd want to split the outlet in two and use two sets of lilys, I did this with a pair of 13mm lillys to see if it was practical and found the flow to be only about 700lph less than the standard fluval outlet, I'd imagine that a pair of 17mm lillys would be much better.
 
You dont mean something like this Sam:

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http://www.oasisaquarium.co.uk/catalogu ... p1838.asp#

Just an idea.

Dave
 
Are the Fluval hoses ribbed? How do their fittings stop water tracking along the threads and leaking? Would a simple hose connector maybe not do this?

If Fluval do a fitting that connects their ribbed hose to a threaded connection then you can get all sorts of hose fittings of all diameters that will screw onto it for any diameter fitting.
 
Hello George I have never had experience with linking lily pipes to the out let of a fx5 but I have had experience when it comes to using an adaptor to resize the pipes. DONT resize the pipe going in as I have tryed to resize it to 16/22 and it just crushed the pipe and sucked it flat. I have the outlet on 16/22 connected to a ehem spray bar. I can supply pictures if that helps.
 
ermm not much at all. instead of the normal out let which I don't think is the best i have opted for a eheim spray bar kit which does the job :). also just bought another fx5 will compare the two as the one i just got has the original pipes and out let
 
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