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nfored

nfored

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The Situation:

A fish thats eating to much and getting bloated. (I am not feeding him to much he just steals from all the other fish)

The Problem: No dividers or anything to make dividers with. No QT Tank and No extra Heater.

The Tools at hand: one 200GPH pump, 1 gravel vac, 6 foot of tubing, 5 gallon bucket.

The Solution

Take the bucket, put the top of the bucket 1 inch above the top of the tank. Start a siphon from the tank to the bucket with the gravel vac. With the bucket above the tank the siphon can only fill the buckt up tot he tank water level.

Then Pump the water out of the bucket back to the tank. I now have circulation of filtered and heated water. I also ran one of the air lines from the main tank back into the bucket.



Its very ugly and kinda in the way, but will let me fast the fish for a few days with what I have. I really didn't have the money to buy a new heater.

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slight tweak would be a little more safe. Move buck up about 3-4", cut hole in bucket and glue some tubing in place, run tubing back to tank and pump into buck.

This way you don't really have to rely on the syphon at all.

Just my .02 though.
 
cassharper;2326659; said:
slight tweak would be a little more safe. Move buck up about 3-4", cut hole in bucket and glue some tubing in place, run tubing back to tank and pump into buck.

This way you don't really have to rely on the syphon at all.

Just my .02 though.
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This is a great Idea and much safer, Since I will need to leave this up for a week or so. I will grab a DIY bulk head from Home Depot Tomorrow, $0.90 for safe peace of mind.

The way I have it now is the pump is super restricted hardly pumping anything aonly around 50GPH. This way the siphon is always flowing faster than the pump, and using pressure to keep the wate level balanced. your way is much safer. Kinda like an over the tank filter.
 
nfored;2326792; said:
This is a great Idea and much safer, Since I will need to leave this up for a week or so. I will grab a DIY bulk head from Home Depot Tomorrow, $0.90 for safe peace of mind.

The way I have it now is the pump is super restricted hardly pumping anything aonly around 50GPH. This way the siphon is always flowing faster than the pump, and using pressure to keep the wate level balanced. your way is much safer. Kinda like an over the tank filter.
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Who knows, when this is all said and done, you might like it so much you can just stuff some bioballs or pot scrubbies in it to have an instant cycled quarantine when you need it.
 
Great DIYing :thumbsup:
 
I had a real QT tank, but now its full of 40 guppy Fry. AHHHHHH can't wait to get ride of them. I go down every day hoping the grew over night so I can take them to the LFS for free feeders.
 
lol very creative! so hows the little pig doing?
 
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