For those of you using canisters or sumps, you have inevitably had to cut tubing to fit your specific tanks set-up(s). This will result in leftover tubing pieces, some long and some short. I would recommend that you not throw those pieces away, even if they’re really short (< 4 inches). Why?
There are numerous ways you can use those pieces. I have a large plastic tub/bin that is full of unused, extra, and/or miscellaneous pieces of tubing, which I sometimes use to modify intakes or outakes. I will use short pieces, especially if I want to extend standard rigid hose connectors that come with canisters. I have also used hose pieces for everything from replacing rigid tubing to feeding fish (a post for another day). I have even used them to build DYI filters.
