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TommyB

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In a somewhat drunkin stuper a friend and i came up with the following idea and wondered if it would work....


1-take two tanks with equal water levels and put them next to each other.

2- get a clear 3-4 inch tube

3-submerge it in one of the tanks

4-cap it and span it across the two tanks so there is no air in the tube

5- remove the caps

Now here's the question......

Would any of the fish actually try to swim in the tube???


Yes, i know it' really dumb, but we're both engineers and it doesn't seem like it could hurt the fish so we were thinking of trying it.

It would almost be like those hamster cage things.


What do you think???
 

Jawz

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i dont get how water would stay in the tube? if the other tank is lower, a siphon action will happen, ud have to drill holes in both tanks and then connect from there, thats possible and that would probly work, bigger the hole the better.
 

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TommyB, thats the best two engineers can come up with? My 5 year old son had the same idea *LOL*

Jawz, actually the water would stay up because there would be a vaccum created, the only way the water would drain out is if air got in, and the only way that would happen is if the openings of the tubing were to close to the surface of the water and the pressure was stronger than the amount of water above it....
 

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hmm thats pretty interesting than, id say give it a shot if u really want to. But one day id like to connect 2 or 3 tanks together with large pipes, like 3 inches pipes around a room. see some nice platies swimmin by while making dinner. lol
 

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Sounds like a fun experiment! Try it and let us know if it works. I'd agree that the fish wouldn't be in danger at all....assuming that the tube is stationary etc.
 

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there used to be a fish store my me that had a tank actually built like that out of glass, there was 3 seperate tanks all connected togethere with 5 inch glass cylinders in various levels and such, and the fish did swim around through them, as far as the fish swimming in a upward tube not sure you would have to anchor the tubing in some way, if one piece fell out it would siphon the water out
 

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One question... What happens if a fish dies in the tube? How in the world would you get it out if the tunnels were totally stationary?

I have seen one with tubes, and half was freshwater and half was saltwater. No idea how it was seperated

Shawn
 

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Actually there are some 2-3g tanks out there with a specially designed bridge for them... Looked at them, perplexed (WHY!?) but never bothered to waste the $.

Andy
 

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Just think of all the cool experiments you could do with that triple tank.

If you filter from one and dump into the other you'd have a river tank.

and if you kept the heater in one of the outer most tanks you could maintain much different temps betwwen tanks and let the fish deceide where they want to live.

you could also feed different flake foods into each one and see where all the fish eat.

How come all my hobbies turn into experiments???
 

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