Would This Filter?

[Ficious]

I just bought a new betta and am deciding where he should live. i have a 1.5 nano with an art deco filter. i was wondering if i put a 1 gallon vase next to the other betta tank and add 1 medium piece of air tubing, connecting them together.

the water level in the vase would be lower than that of the cube...make a syphon pouring into the vase and then add water to make the levels balanced.

my question is...would the water in the tube cycle? or is there some sort of gravity taking place that keeps the two tanks in their own water.


im asking because i would like some filtration in the vase...even if its not very much

 

[doresy]

One of the wierdest questions I have heard in a long time

The answer to your question is a simple one....It's the filter that cycles not the water

Oh and BTW, vases are for flowers not fishkeeping

Just seen the last bit of your post.....wouldn't work unless there is a flow between the 2 vessels

 

[tyyrlym]

This is sort of like a small water bridge. Unfortunately unless you have something like a canister filter it won't work. There's nothing to push the water through the tube connecting the two. If you had a canister filter or something you could put the intake in one aquarium, set up a siphon between the tanks, and then put the return in the other tank. That would work, what you're thinking won't.

 

[OldMan47]

When I was a youngster we had a row of tanks set up to use a single large HOB filter. The filter was hung on the tank at one end of the row and returned water to the other end of the row. The tanks were connected to each other using large diameter tubing, not airline, and the water level differences caused by returning the water to the wrong tank created a flow that kept all 4 tanks in that row circulating. In those days there were no power filters. The HOB was run by using a "lift tube" to move water from a tank into the filter and it was returned using a large diameter siphon tube. The high flows of a modern filter would have probably emptied one tank and allowed another to overflow but in those days the flow rates were much lower and the siphons could keep up.

 

[tyyrlym]

Yeah, forgot to mention that. There's no way small diameter airline tubing could keep up. You'd need something much larger, like a saltwater tank's overflow siphon, a 1/2" to 3/4" diameter siphon tube.