Water Siphon Demonstration

[sam8fish]

if your gravel gets to high so try a smaller tube!

[mattphat23]

thank you so much for your demonstration! very useful! =)

[duagnelo]

que veia ligera, eu chupava a água quinem tonto. thanks for the hints

[BTownMiss]

There are so many things wrong in this video.. I urge anyone new to owning a fish tank to watch a different video on this type of cleaning..

[clan10ful]

very nice,mam.........

[joeymac119]

Very helpful!!!! I used to change my water WAAAAY before my whole tank turned fuckin GREEN. Now I know I can just be a dirty slob and only clean it every few years or so. You think if I just clean it during the summer Olympics, that will give me that BRIGHT GREEN look that your tank has?? Learn something every day!!!  Well done

[potresen909]

NO ITS NOT RIGHT SHES PUT DOWN THE BACTERIA BACK.. SHE PUT THE 70 PROCENT BACTERIA BACK..YOU HAVE TO CLEAN YOUR TANK VERY CARFUL

[HaCKeRz7UmEr]

why are you trying to wearing the water pipe lol

[bradymiller1999]

You fail

[jean9910]

you dont do a 20% water change a week do you LOL

[RaymondLau123]

gj

[oemfx1965]

This video helped me.Thank you.

[Spongekid01]

@ fishingman636 bitch she could clean it Berta dan u could

[RubenARuiz]

GREAT! I always try this but just end up siphoning it by dumb luck, now i actually know how to do it quickly :D

[fishingman636]

She sucks at cleaning it

[carvinblack]

One thing I would suggest. You don't have to stop the water when the gravel fills up the syphon. When you drop the gravel without the syphon running, you are dropping the debris too. The gravel will naturally drop(even with the suction running) and the debris will stay at the top of the tube. I usually only suck up about a quarter of the gravel you do, then I drop it. I even pinch the hose to slow down the rate of water.

[jadejesus2003]

Thank you for this video it was very helpful.

[picball39]

lol...this could be expervillage

[thePRSF]

I am a new fish owner (inherited a 12" L Plecostomus with a 10 gal tank). Well, the tank hasn't been maintained (at all). So his water is very very dirty. I changed the filter but fouled the water. I purchased one of those suction pump (as shown in the video) but CAN NOT get the friggin' thing to work. I've shaken it, I've held it up...won't start suctioning. Nothing. All I'm doing is making his water worse. Which I have to keep changing out. There has to be an idiot-proof way to clean this tank

[kentimusmaximus]

Yea that's one way to do it

[fourseasonsfun]

Great "how to". I agree that your tank needs a good cleaning, but as far as siphon function goes, well done.

[jonesc94]

All u have to do is shake it in the water to make suction....hold it up above your head?..what? Duh

[Pop12646Okami]

Boy, I don't mean to be rude, but please clean your tank!

[rickb2200]

@Pop12646Okami That's kind of what she's doing.

[Pop12646Okami]

@rickb2200 No, I mean, do you see how greenish-brown and unclear the water is? Not only is it bad for the fish, but it's very unattractive. Especially if that's in her kitchen!

[eveythefab]

Thank you so much! Very helpful. The instructions on my siphon pack did not make any sense!

[waylan3]

thanks can you use that siphaned water as plant food

[chadlorikassidy]

Very helpful on getting it started! Thanks!!

[EnglishMadMan1]

Very good video. I bought an electric one that did the suction and was very complicated and expensive, I then watched this video and saw how much easier that it is using the water siphon! Thanks to this I can now empty the tank for water changes and clean the gravel at the same time and not have to buy batteries!!!!

[haselec]

good info thanxxxxxxxxxxx

[applemacyeah]

Thank you for this - so helpful. It actually explained how to get it started which i had no idea. Thanks!!

[nayboardie]

think her fish died along time ago. the waters just been heated to grow algae lol

[Spongekid01]

U sound like ur a sweet,nice lady

[BigThangsPoppinMayne]

@TheHammyChannelx i seen em at walmart and at pet stores like where they sell fish

[PuganPoo]

WOW DIRTY WATER,YOU SHOULD HAVE CLEANED IT SOONER.

[kimikozembower]

great information

[JG0en187]

@Rowyn23 LOL That's what I was thinking

[mdevore79]

Thank You. I finally understand.

[arangogol]

thanks!!!



[Sinndra]

Thanks! I was trying to figure out how to use mine XD very helpful

[bostonred915]

you are a true hobbyist (im saying that with a strong british accent)

[theairsoftsniper26]

To make 1 all u ned is a water botle tape and a tube

[amigoethan]

Thanks so much! Very very helpful.

[caliver6]

Thank you, this was very helpful

[aslamartnet]

Thank you for posting, this is great stuff.

[juanillo97]

excelente



[Stinder]

This video is great for an aquatic rookie like myself.

[NarutoEpic]

thanks a bunch! very helpful vid!

[liam898]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Just had to use this where I work and it has saved us a whole day of fixing!!!

[Mamboleo1995]

thanks for the video! my mom and cousin were convinced that there was a missing motor and didnt believe that i could use it to get the water up, but i showed them;) lol.

[reddarkness321]

Thanks for the info. :)

[Spartacus217]

Very helpful.

[hamoon007]

watch?v=Vh8G-oTdwPY

[emostevo575]

Thank you haha. My mom was freaking out so I showed her what the world of YouTube had to offer

[TheNewBeastBoy]

can it suck up all the water too? cuz i have a turtle and he is very messy, and even with his filter the tank gets dirty in like 4-5 days. can this siphon thing suck up all the water? if so that wud remove a huge weight of my back! plz reply back ASAP, i need to consider to buy this or not

[Mamboleo1995]

@TheNewBeastBoy yes it will suck out as much water as u want til u stop it. yeah turtles are realy high maintenance! lol good luck

[IERTOI]

Awesome demonstration! Simple, yet very helpful :P

[Si1varaGar]

This is so helpful. Thankyou very much. I have never done this before and I'm about to go do it! I'm living in a dorm with a 2 galon fish tank, so i might take my fish out first so I don't suck them up.

[fenrirgg]

Cool, I do the same (with a catheter). It's like vacuuming but fun.

[pathaanxx]

so much more helpful then that "expert" village b/s

[2213catlover]

thanks!

[pcking2008]

Thats what I am doing wrong....Thanks Kimmi

[kavkazip]

Thanks so much for this.

[josehenn]

@cichlidkeeper89 Thank you! A mix of this video and your comments have helped me clean my tank properly!

[TheMrdanferd]

omg this dont work for me.....

[TheSayinPrince]

Are they expensive??

[rachaelgiggles]

@TheSayinPrince No way. I got mine for like 9 bucks at a pet store.

[FONZIE2323]

you should but up a link on where you got your siphon or you can just send me a messages ?/ plzzzz and thanx

[pshiel]

@boe544 You shouldn't remove the fish this would cause far too much stress, especially for sharks, and cats etc.

[thailur123]

And btw, your suppose to do a section at a time, not try to do every part of the tank at the same time.

[divinegerbs]

thanks you!

[lmr1016]

@boe544 actully fish get even more stressed when you take them out.its better to just leave them in the tank :)

[matimaster]

:O that is soooooo coool ! :O could i do that with any sort of plastic tube ?

[tullio1863]

Thank you!

[MyRedEaredSliders]

Thank you very much I test my siphon on my new 29 gallon tank for my turtles and it worked.

[Fielderfarms]

Great Job...Thank You

[Alex42092479]

How much do those cost

[WannaBros]

Thank you very much! I'm getting a big tank and now I'm gonna clean it with a sipon!! Thanks:) 5 star and favorite and I subscribe you

[heatherheath2010]

thanks haha i just cleaned my tank thanks to youuu

[terencefm]

@cichlidkeeper89 debris will still be sucked out even if there is gravel up the tube. you do control the flow of the water with your finger so you have more control and debris that goes up the tube will take a while for it to settle to the bottom again so you dont have to worry about that. you can push the siphon down if you want but dragging it is another effective way to do it. and this is probably a new tank so it might still be going through the nitrogen cycle.

[mrsbluebanana]

awesome demonstration

[Fisharecool11]

Wow. Look how clean that water is.

[kitanotom36]

that´s a good method

[ultra78721]

The common problem as u see in this video is inserting the python to deep into the substrate, which causes the python to fill fast with substrate . Only insert 1/2 inch so that it wont fill with substrate. Once it starts to fill, pull up ,let the substrate fall down and do another section. Takes practice but pays off at the end.

[ultra78721]

When she lets the gravel fill the python, she plugs the whose with her finger which pauses the suction. Causing debris to fall back into the water along with the substrate, clouding the water.This is why You python a little at a time,Once the substrate fills 25% MAX of the python pull the python up away from the substrate.(NOT OUT OF THE WATER THOUGH).. So the substrate will fall down because of its weight but there's still suction to pull the debris since its lighter.

[scottylad79]

agree with cichlidkeeper.

[gdareos]

Finally -- a decent video that is eminently practical!! It's amazing how simple this trick was, and I have had aquariums for many years and gotten several mouthfuls of aquarium water. No More ! Thanks!!

[Desttachi]

You tottally saved me thanks!!!

[timatlightbox]

Hi, yes I hope we can learn things from this and also the author can get it right ;) good on you for putting it out here though, now you know how to do it properly :)

[nina1rob]

To everyone out there asking were can u get one !! They sell them at walmart very cheap 10 bucks and up!! Good luck with ur tank!!

[Pig560]

i checked amazon to get one of these but i couldnt find it... can anybody tell me where i can get the same siphon? thanx in advance

[Pig560]

hi can you please tell me where i can get the exact same siphon from online?

[milkandhoney2010]

Thanks!! I had the hardest time making that thing work once I shook out the gravel.

[Squaremouth1]

THANKS!!  You guys are a cute couple, too, entertaining and informative all around.

[diamond8s]

I appreciate it...I wasn't sure how those worked.

[greenfish13]

Dude that's the hard way to start a siphon. There are at least two other infinitely easier ways to start a siphon. Just suck on one end and don't get water in your mouth, or submerge hose in water with no bubbles in the hose finger on end dump it into bucket and start goin at it. Neither require you to have the siphon across your shoulders.

[guzguz21]

Hello, how do I prevent the debris from raising whe using a syphon? Is it normal? How many debris should I tolerate? My guppies always end up eating some.

[gcampapgna]

Works

[rarityd]

thanks for the video

[BuddGreenley]

nice job

[MultiMegaGamming]

Wow Miklord are you even a fish keeper? It wont hurt the fish stupid. Geat discription

[Ssshahin]

wicked video

[dissieb]

Thank you! Best description I have seen.

[drzgigglezzkat0122]

Omgshh thank u so much this has been a great deal of help! thank u again!

[mrgiallo]

Thanks!!!

You are great!!!

[SHITtina666]

magic !!! really easy

[sloppi1234]

i suck from the end of the tube. EASY

[slipknot555133]

uhh ya your method is a lot easier then this..not haha

[lolitaahh]

great !!

[cichlidkeeper89]

even if you have a filter, you still need to vacuum the gravel.

[strokemacat]

i prefer the crunch into the gravel and lift, rather than swirl the syphon all around which to me just aggitates the poop etc and makes your tank all murky, i know it settles through time but it would prevent it...just my thoughts, nothing major.

[african09pride]

Thnx for the explanation!

[PurrfectKittenAngel]

True, but no matter what you use to clean the gravel you should always have a filter to clean stuff floating around in the water to prevent your tank from getting as bad as the one in this video. I feel bad for the fish in that tank she should have a filter and the gravel shouls be cleaned more often.. But besides that I am thinking about maybe trying one of these because an undergravel filter would definitely be hard to set up especially since the gravel is already in and I have a large tank.

[nooloo3000]

you seem like a expert i didnt read your full coment but would a under gravel filter clean the poop thing or should i just use a biological filter idk i sort of jumped head first in to the fish thing

[PurrfectKittenAngel]

Both work perfectly fine :) . I have smaller tanks with under gravel filters, they stay pretty clean. My other larger tanks have regular filters though and also stay nice and clean. Which ever one you prefer. I would recommend using a biological filter. As long as you have some kind of filter your tank should be fine, but you're probably going to need to scrub algae off the sides of the tank every once in awhile.

[caliburn0911]

how come mine doesnt make the stone go up lol

[chubbytoki]

if u have thicker hose it creats more powerful sucking power, you must have smaller hose then hers

[caliburn0911]

please reply do u buy that thing in a store or do u make it?? cause i need 1

[TylerMiddaugh07]

yea lol walmart has them in the fish

[DavidFrom209]

this might sound like a dumb question, but can you use these with sand? mine works great on gravel but i'm going to be starting a new tank soon and would like to try sand....

[Kramyar06]

very nice... hehe....

[sIcKBoy307]

This is a great video! Its very helpful

[berdindragon]

i had to suck the tube to get a vacuam

[MktNinja]

holding the tube upright until all of the air is out is really helpful!! thx.

[Gilbert289]

This is the right method but, you only want to take out 10% to 20% water each time you clean your tank. if you remove more you will loose all your good bacteria and will have to go through the cycling process again...

[bloodowners23]

thank u so much man thank u thank .

u no what u got same fish as i do u got tiger barbs i have some 2 lol thanks

[agnatis]

thank you so much!! :)

[yuriogy1]

you can also just take the large tube, submerge it completely in the water until theres no bubbles in it, and suck the other end of the tube.

[2ShaePussyCat]

u can suck on it withour submerging it entirely, thats the way i do it, but this is more hygienical.

[oJAYRAYo]

you fuckin rock! thank you

[Robbybox333]

I know it looks alarming, but she's probably doing on purpose. Green water is actually very healthy for fish. The unicellular algae provide a microscopic food source that does not spoil and keeps fish from over feeding. The opacity of the water protects fry from adults. It doesn't look very nice to the untrained eye, but it's a breeding secret in many countries.

[inachu]

Interesting news if true. I sorta believe it as I know baby fish do eat the small stuff.

THumbs up for this comment.

I use my siphon to drain my AC evaporation pan for the house.

[DrRaker]

yes its part of the nitrate cycle in the tank and is very dangerous even lethal for most fish the key is watching amonia levels and when these spike it will eventually cause high nititeand high nitrate levels make sure you keep an eye on these or bye bye fish (flush)

[Robbybox333]

I've never heard of green water being an integral part of the nitrogen cycle.

Many tanks (esp. planted ones) do experience an algae bloom before the tank stabilizes, but I think that has more to do with light levels than any form of nitrogen.

[gamalto303]

wow u did not know that thx for the info

[Robbybox333]

Green water is actually very healthy for fish. The unicellular algae provide a microscopic food source that does not spoil and keeps fish from over feeding. The opacity of the water protects fry from adults. It doesn't look very nice to the untrained eye, but it's a breeding secret in many countries.

[jestershead1959]

Thank you so much for this. Tomorrow i will try that on a garden pond. Fingers crossed

[oliviasaru]

This helped so much! I would never have been able to figure out how to use our siphon without it. Thank you!

[madifu]

thanks a million! this helped us so much!

[NickHawkins123]

I bought some fish and tank from craigslist and I forgot to ask how to use the water siphon, So this was very helpful. Thanks

[krosby79]

ok ok very good thanks

[rubberduckie02m]

I just bought a siphon today, and I had no idea how it worked, so I read the directions on the packaging.

First it says how to set it up. Then it says, Submerge cylinder in aquarium water. Move cylinder up and down rapidly 5x to start.

I tried this, and it just didnt work. I ended up spending 45 min. pumping it up and down thinking i was doing it right, and barely any water came out.

I knew something was wrong so I did a search and this video was the first result. Thank you so much!

[rubberduckie02m]

Oh, and the first time i tried it, I accidentally sucked my fish up! );

Poor thing. I felt so bad.

[alicia3530]

I got a siphon at wal mart and the directions said the same thing, it is a total piece of crap. I have my first tank it's only ten gallons but it took me over an hour and the water still is not perfect.

[rubberduckie02m]

yeah, i have a 10 gal too.. it's also my first tank.

i couldn't get it to work right until i saw this video.

it cleaned the gravel, but it left the water a little cloudy afterward, but by morning it was settled and my tank looks clear again.

[audisport]

lol the fishy was runnin around

[jamesthefisherman94]

i needed this so much!!!

[bboyh5]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!

[Goldwing777777]

Aquarium Vacuum Pump Water Cleaner Siphon

[Pimporly]

It's easier to get a container like a small bucket, cup, or deli cup to get rid of the unwanted water!!!!

[xxg00glexx]

lol its not just getting rid of water its cleaning the rock underneath moving around the gravel

[wired23]

this didn't work for me any ideas why?

[kinkyoto]

i tihnk the tube has to be fully filled first.

and then the cylinder part has to be full also

i just tried it. it works

[TheTropicalFishKid]

Great Meathod, Thanks!

[pizazmitaz]

yeah...those have been around forever

[stvnivan]

nice..... but where do i buy does siphon?

[TheTexanAtheist]

at any pet store where they sell fish and fish aquariums =] petco and petsmart for me

[lankanpridevenu]

omg good job A+

[AtmosphereofDecay]

Perfect. =)

[sgb2414]

i'm guessing this doesn't work unless the end of the hose is below the siphon tube...?

[diligentile]

I like how you got the siphoning started, but I have a problem with your method of capturing debris in the rocks. The best method is to poke down in a certain spot, hold there until all the debris in that area is sucked up, and then raise tube and poke down in nearby area. Repeat those steps.

This method prevents a cloud of debris coming up and actually lets you capture it all without stirring it up.

[horsecrazy004]

THANK YOU! I've been dying to know how to do it without clouding! So, taking your fish out is not the best way?

[XBball4lifeX]

i just suck on the tube ;/ its acually alot faster.

[Devil36O]

you can get diseases that way eg salmonella

[EMPTYUK]

THANK YOU! The instructions that came with the siphon were crap and we had no idea how to use it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Our clean little fishes thank you too..

[aethynyc]

Thanks!! Your method actually works and got the siphon working. The instructions on the Top Fin box were so horrible and doesn't work.

[vicz200]

u can tell thee are no fish in the fish tank lol

[GumbyOwnz]

thanks for the help

[aronali1122]

you the best

[simzter123abc]

finally!!, someone that can help me clean my tank!!!

thanx alot!!!

[horsecrazy004]

So helpful!

[PaintedCrusader]

thank you for this!

i had that tube for a while, it came with my tank and i didn't no what it was  *>_>

This will make things a whole bunch easier =D

[bdaddy23]

thanks for the video

[elppen]

AH THANK YOU SO HELPFULLLL

[tehzeebs82]

excellent video ...

[tythesnoman]

oh man i wish i would of scene this video when i drained my tank i went on vacation for 2 weeks and all my fish died i used my mouth and ended up drinking 2 mouth fulls or rotten warm water fish soup :S

[nike4231]

y do u put ur finger over the end of the tube??

[mxman311]

Nice video. However you are not using the gravel vac right. Try just doing in in spots instead of all around the tank. Also when you plug is with your finger you are putting all the crap right back in the tank. Try just pinching it to slow it down a little.

[HomeDjPinky]

Good Turinal

[johnk1techexperience]

dude, get a python no spill clean 'n fill, so much easier

[ellababylion]

its so hard to do it with a tiny bowl thats on a floor....

[ASSYRIANLEGEND]

i dont no if u guys are having the same problem but i find some sort of white thing in my aquriom and it is similar to a spider web but its not if any one nows what it is or how can i prevent from having it plz comment.