I still have a few pumps and lines in tanks... I put together for helping do water changes, before I started pumping out water, and had to rely on siphoning... I put a couple small pumps, inside a plastic box with holes, and a lady's nylon type over material ( I wanted to protect baby shrimp from getting sucked out of tanks, during water changes ) I now used a stainless mesh covered suction pipe on my big main suction pump... these little pumps, had 3/8inch silicone hose, with a clip on the end, and at water change time, I turn them on, and pump to a bucket... I have some tanks, that are sitting on 2 inch construction lumber, on the floor, so it was hard to syphon out of tanks that low... I still have a couple in the shrimp tanks, and in doing things, one of the hoses fell down into the tank on the bottom, it was in the top tank of a double stacked 10 gallon...
it's funny how hard we work at getting a syphon some times, but if we have an air line not being used, or a hose, just sitting there, they'll start siphoning on their own...
this leak took longer to find, as the syphoned water, was going into the tank below, and that tank was over flowing, very slowly...
it's easier, if you have a single tank, but important to pull any extra / un used hoses or air lines from your tanks, to prevent a wet floor...
it's funny how hard we work at getting a syphon some times, but if we have an air line not being used, or a hose, just sitting there, they'll start siphoning on their own...
this leak took longer to find, as the syphoned water, was going into the tank below, and that tank was over flowing, very slowly...
it's easier, if you have a single tank, but important to pull any extra / un used hoses or air lines from your tanks, to prevent a wet floor...
