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How Do You Use A Siphon |
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03-23-2007, 03:10 PM
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Just Moved In
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Location: Maryland
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How Do You Use A Siphon
How the hell do you work a siphon hose to clean, fill and change water in your tank?
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03-23-2007, 04:53 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
 not sure if I want to reply to this one...Maybe Scott will help out |
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03-23-2007, 05:00 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
Why for it got to be me?
Really it's pretty simple. Acquire the hose/tube you want to use (make sure it is clean and dry), please one end in the aquarium holding it underwater, and briskly suck, only for a brief second, on the other end and the water will begin to move through the tube. Make sure that the end you are sucking on is lower than the end that is end the aquarium. |
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03-23-2007, 05:02 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
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Scott, can you say that here |
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03-23-2007, 05:03 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
Common, we're talking about a siphon tube for changing saltwater.
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03-23-2007, 05:07 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
hahahahhahaaa TOOOO FUNNY
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03-23-2007, 05:53 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
"Briskly sucking" aside, you can also start a siphon in your tank.
1. Immerse tube and hose in tank. 2. Taking care to keep both under water, lift one end of the tube under water to allow air bubbles to be released. This may take a couple of times. 3. Once bubbles are completely out of tube and it is full of water, place the vacuumed end into sand, and cover the other end of the hose with your thumb. Remove (thumb still covering) hose and place into a bucket. Release thumb from hose, and voila!, water should be siphoning into bucket. Shay |
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03-24-2007, 03:02 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
hey good idea shay never thorght of that one!
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04-01-2007, 09:08 PM
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Re: How Do You Use A Siphon
i coudn't believe my eyes and i also couldnt stop laughin when i was looking through this side. i knew what you mean but its so easy to think the opposite and turn the words around ha, nice to have a good laugh on here though, but @least we know what you mean properly for the tanks like
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