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horace01 said..
I had issues with my Ozone hose splitting. I replaced it with some corrugated irrigation hose from Bunnings. It's flexible, not too thin so doesn't split and it's cheap. Been using it for a couple of seasons with no issues.
Over the years we've found all the early style pump hoses split (from any brand, because they all came from the same source in China), because the plastic in the hose was a bit thin, but mostly because people left the hose connected and it got crushed and kinked when they packed up. The holes and splits always appeared where the hose kinked.
One of the most common fixes for the old style hoses was to fit a piece of garden hose in the pump outlet then slide the hose pump over that so it cannot kink.
Your fix sounds even better though.
The new pumps have a much stiffer and thicker walled pump hose and don't suffer from this issue.