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    Need help with quick connects

    I am replacing my green hose on my Eheim 2217. The hose is mucked up on the inside and I can't get it cleaned.

    It was extremely difficult to remove the connectors off the old hose. Yes, I know to unscrew it. When I went to put the new hose on, it took absolute brute force. On one of the connections I could not get the screw on piece close enough to engage it and properly screw it on tight.

    Is there some special trick to this?
    Jarrod - Houston, Texas
    150 gallon - my African cichlid monster tank (I know it isn't a big as yours)
    17 gallon - Threadfin rainbows and corys lightly planted
    5 gallon - planted red cherry shrimp breeder
    3 gallon - planted red cherry shrimp breeder
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    Yes, boil the hose to make it soft.
    I ate my fish that died.

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    • #3
      A little lubrication helps also. Eheim usaully includes thier brand with new filters. It can be used on the gaskets and also to help with what you are trying to do. If not vaseline does the same thing.
      120g - Tropheus Moorii Kambwimba
      180g - Petrochromis Macrognathus Dine/Tropheus Moorii Namansi I

      "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains"....Winston Churchill

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      • #4
        was the line open or was it still air tight?
        250gallon-Wild Angels, community

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