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naru · 12-20-2003, 11:22 PM

This is what I use:
A 5 quart paint bucket (Available at Lowes)
Air line tubing and rigid tubing.
Plastic Air line gang valves.
And the most important equipment: Nose aspirator for babies.
You can buy this at any grocery/pharmacy. It's used to suck snot out of baby's nose.
Fill the bucket with your tank water and put it on top of the hood. Stick the rigid tubing in the bucket and connect the tubing. This is done so that you can get that last bit of water from the bucket. Connect the tubing to the the gang valve. Connect additional tubings and place it inside the bags with the fish, but leave one tubing out. Now close all valves except for the one for the tubing that is left out. Stick the aspirator at the end of the tube and draw water from the bucket. Once the siphon is established adjust the valves to get the correct drip rate: one or two drops per second.

Naru

12-20-2003, 11:22 PM	#8 (permalink)
naru Tunicate Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Yorktown, VA Posts: 10 View Gallery Karma Komment	This is what I use: A 5 quart paint bucket (Available at Lowes) Air line tubing and rigid tubing. Plastic Air line gang valves. And the most important equipment: Nose aspirator for babies. You can buy this at any grocery/pharmacy. It's used to suck snot out of baby's nose. Fill the bucket with your tank water and put it on top of the hood. Stick the rigid tubing in the bucket and connect the tubing. This is done so that you can get that last bit of water from the bucket. Connect the tubing to the the gang valve. Connect additional tubings and place it inside the bags with the fish, but leave one tubing out. Now close all valves except for the one for the tubing that is left out. Stick the aspirator at the end of the tube and draw water from the bucket. Once the siphon is established adjust the valves to get the correct drip rate: one or two drops per second. Naru __________________ 29G FOWLR Last edited by naru : 12-20-2003 at 11:25 PM.