Lee's Pet Products ALE16005 Rigid Tubing for Aquarium Pumps, 3/16-Inch by 3-Feet

I've been using this brand of tubing for over forty years, This particular size fits quite snugly into standard airline tubing and has a thousand uses in the aquarium hobby. I've used it in making custom filters, brine shrimp hatcheries, placing airstones, and hundreds of other things. if you heat it with a hot air gun, you can bend it to almost any shape you want. When I look for it in my local stores, I can no longer find it. There are no mom and pop fish stores left in my town. They've all been pushed out by the big chain stores, and these chains really don't to deal with the DIY crowd. My tubing, (I had ordered three pieces) came well wrapped in bubble wrap and tightly bound together. It was in good condition, ready to cut to size and use. I recommend ordering three or more pieces at a time. If you are into fishkeeping at any deep level, you will use it all up sooner or later and wish that you had ordered more. It's just that useful. I would also suggest getting a supply of 3/8", 1/2" and 1". All these sizes can really come in handy.

The rigid tube worked well in my aquarium and comes in one long piece. However, be sure to have the right L-shaped tubing to attach it to the end of your bubble wand. Don't use plastic tubing or it will bend.

After having to wait for delivery the items arrived well packaged but missing. I ordered a quantity of 6, after reading the reviews I expected that I may not receive the full packs of 9 but I at least expected to receive 6, instead I received only 3 3' tubes total. These are also not standard tube sizes and no attachments will fit in them, so you can't use connectors or splitters on them, if you warm up the regular flexible tubing you can just about squeeze it over the outside of these rigid ones. The seller did refund my money but it is very frustrating as I live rural so only go to areas with stores occasionally and after waiting so long for these to arrive to have the order so wrong was very annoying. My order was sent from Sold by: HorseLoverZ / EasyPetStore.

Looked to be good product however the shipper destroyed them not once but twice! Vendor promptly gave me a full refund after the second shipment was damaged.

What's to say? It's rigid aquarium tubing. Its OD fits nicely into standard flexible aquarium tubing ID. My only critique is that the seller bent it to package it and it stayed bent. That wasn't the end of the world because I only needed about 18" of straight tubing.

Was great! Came in a huge box, so it wasn't bent at all! Even though the box was excessively huge, it was only a piece of rigid tubing, so there was no damage to it, it just rattled around a bit. Will be ordering again since I used up all 3 feet already! To easily bend this you can run it over hot water from your faucet. I've seen people boil hot water in a pot and then putting it in there and bending it, but if you get your faucet to hot and bend slowly, you can bend it perfectly without having to wait however long to boil the water.

This rigid airline tubing is great, and there are so many uses for it. However you can get it way cheaper on eBay for example, I paid $16 and then looked and I could have gotten it for like $5-$10. Don’t buy, it’s a ripoff.

I don'i know why - but i have tried every retail store in my area and had No LUCK finding this item. Thanks to TopDawg for keeping it in stock. This is the best way to connect an air stone, from a visual perspective in a tank. No kinking and easy to hide. Reasonable price, slightly bulky packaging - but i don't think there is another option without folding them in half as I have heard some sellers do.