Make A Vacuum Suspended Fish Tank
This is an interesting way to turn a classic science experiment into a functioning addition to a fish tank. It makes a pretty cool display!
Be sure if you try this to have plenty of water circulation in your tank or the water in the suspended area could become oxygen deprived. There really shouldn't be any problems if the tank is well functioning prior to adding the new compartment. You may also want to put a wide base of some kind below the supports so the extra weight is spread over a larger area and you won't risk cracking the bottom of your tank.
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Thanks Ben, now my wife wants to get fish
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Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" Fish are great! just get real plants!
Grant Thompson - "The King of Random" this one's better! watch?v=1tmsHa5spqc
+Noah Schuler so I suck the air out or in?
Mark Blake Make a zone of low pressure so the water will be able to rise into the upside down container.
I tried doing this but ended swallowing a fish. R.I.P. Little Nemo
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Yummy
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Wade HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂
1:55 The true face of pain.
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Does that look like a face with mercy!
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Nice kristen stewart inpression tho
Lookin' like Jesus.😂
no tubing required: dip jar in tank, fill up then flip over and pull up. need to empty? lift jar then proceed to clean up your now soaked carpet/floor
Typhoonbladefist lol you just shut down half of the commmenters
good one yaar👍
or scoop water out of the main chamber until it acts like one of those automatic pet water dishes. Or put your bubbler under it and watch it slowly displace the water and slowly overflow your tank onto your carpet.
Common sense should tell you to remove some water first
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Great idea! Simple, but very effective.
Hey Matt ! Hye, I'm a big fan of you and now i will improvise this project and combine it with Smart IoT system. Because.... we can ! This is cool to see you commenting back then having the same interest. And now looking back to it really makes me admire and inspired even more to publish DIY contents just like you. 🎉 - Faiz Kreiobotics from Malaysia
Now all I need to do is get some Fish! -_-
Alltime10s wat
Alltime10s lol why are you here?
Alltime10s Ha
Thanks for doing a video right. You had a unique idea that doesn't take long to explain, and you chose to not waste everyone's time by talking for a fkn hour. Instead you put it simply, showed your technique, and taught the world something without wasting much time. Liked and subscribed. KZhead needs more people like you; i'm so fkn sick of what SHOULD be a 2 minute video being dragged out for 15 min. Thanks again.
JimboTheGreat33 I agree. I hate when people have to give a speech before they show anything.
A faster method you can do to accomplish this is you can actually completely submerge the vase and then lift it out of the water bottom first. the vase will be upside down and completely free of any air and it will be kind of heavy to lift, but can be done. This makes cleaning the tank and resetting the vacuum suspended part easier to reset, rather than sucking the air out.
Awesome idea!
yeah, I think that he should make a rubens tube don't you? everyone loves music and flames
HouseholdHacker like yours but maybe a 2 dimensional version...
HouseholdHacker Thanks for posting! That is indeed a great idea NightHawkInLight is presenting in his video.
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With a Glass bowl and some moulded stones it would look better, like a suspended dome add some tiny stars in the outside with a led light and it would look even better.
I like that idea
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Love how simple it is to do most of your videos. Need to find some clear piping so I could make a elaborate area above water.
That's a cool take on a simple aquarium, thank you for sharing this. I'm going to give it a go.
Beautiful work, man! I have to say I am surprised by the quality of video and sound on your videos lately, it's hard to believe it's the same guy from the "swinging log trap" that I watched when I was 13, I could barely understand English back then! (I'm 17 now). You're probably the first DIY channel that I found and one of the reasons I know English nowadays hahaha. Thank you for making this awesome videos, you're the best!!
Miguel Almeida Thanks for watching for so long!
Hey NighHawkInLight, i really like how you apply interesting science to daily life! I can hardly imagine what could be done with this. You are one if my favourite youtubers, ty for being awesome!
Dudeg6 Thank you!
Heard about your channel from Cody's Lab (one of my absolute faves), and this video earned my subscription!
Very good in explaining and showing how it is done, thank you for a great video without dragging things out like most people do in videos take 15 minutes for the actual answer but you did it perfect.
Ur beard is on point
Zyan Alim Zyan please... it's "on fleek".
Jesse Crandle On Brow
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Kangaroo Shorts lol
Zyan Alim No. It's on face.
Nice idea, but I personally prefer the application of these in ponds. The bubble in a koi pond looks particularly appealing to me. :)
Its an interesting concept. I would have put the glass cylinder a bit lower into the tank as water can evaporate quicker at some times. Just to be safe. I would take caution for labyrinth lung fish such as Betta or Cories that sometimes choose to take a breath at the surface. So make sure what kind of fish you have before you consider doing this.
I love vacuum suspended fish tanks as it is so interesting and beautiful to see the fish swim up and explore in the above water part of the tank
I've thought about this myself, but worried about the conditions in the raised area: The pressure is reduced to below atmospheric pressure, which might upset swim bladders. The lower pressure would also lower the potential to keep oxygen in solution. Circulation would be reduced inside the "bubble". I was concerned that it could become a dead zone at some point. Did you ever do a long trial and notice any unusual behaviour?
Will the water in the added jar have reduced pressure? why? This is genuibe question btw
kintokisa The water in the upturned bowl has weight, which is pulling down on the top of the bowl. If he takes the pipe out of his mouth the weight of the water would suck air in rapidly. (In fact it is the external air pressure forcing air into the pipe to displace the water.) If the bowl was a 22m high pipe the weight of the water column would be enough to form a vacuum at the top. The exact height depends on the air pressure at the surface of the aquarium water which is in fact pushing the water up the pipe. (This is the principle at work in a mercury barometer in fact, but mercury is much heavier and will rise less than a meter.) A fish swimming at the top would basically explode as if it was in space. At lower pressures less gas (e.g. CO2 and O2) will be able to dissolve too. Probably not a problem as long as fresh water can circulate into the dome. Hope that helps :-)
i dont think it bothers them. none of my puffs exploded. ive seen fish towers 5' high. it is amazing the weight of it, so you need the stand to be strong and stable
Peggy Thomas Executive Director PUFFER CORPS Ouch :-O That's about a 15% pressure drop I think, which would pop my ears. Thinking about it though, most lake and ocean fish will be diving at least 10m down (possibly 100m+) then coming back up which doubles then halves the pressure on their swim bladder and I know fish aren't getting the bends, so maybe it was a silly concern :)
not at all! i worry about my puffs having separation anxiety. better to make sure. those fish depend on you. :)
why am i watching this i dont even own a fishtank
Why am I reading the comments I don't even own any eyes
great video and very helpful the fish look so happy in their tank, I would love to do this for my goldfish!
Very clever! I've never seen this idea demonstrated before. Thank you.
you look like a very young santy claus
That beard is what helps me get through the day
Sean Huynh Me too
AWESOME! I have seen theses and tried to set it up in my pond but I did not know how to get the water in. Thank you!!
Love the calming music you have been adding to your videos.
Very Cool and interesting
First concrete blocks will royally screw up the alkalinity, find an alternative, maybe ceramic. Second there should be something slightly squishy between the blocks and bottom glass like a thick piece of solid rubber and absolutely no pebbles between the blocks and bottom glass. The cylinder of water has a lot of weight.
and circular tanks are horrible for fish
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Casey Swanson .... you're*
Lol damn, doesn’t matter what the topic is. There’s alway someone that gets triggered 🤣
IGW2 i mean its not really circular, just a cool little extra part/chimney they can swim up to from the bottom rectangular tank
Thanks for the video. You made it very clear and easy to understand and to see. I look forward to making one for my pond.
EPIC!!!! Thanks for the great tip. Getting one for my aquarium ASAP.
How can this have 800+ likes if there are only 50 Javan rhinos in the world
that makes no fucking sense
Hi shrek
How can this make no sense if obamas term ends in 2016
Sherk Teh Orge Because ice cream doesn't have bones...
Because smartphones are dumb
The only problem I have with this is those blocks... I'm afraid that they may fall and break the bottom of the tank
Super cool... sending your video to a fish chat Facebook site!!! Love this!!
This is brilliant, what a fabulous and easy setup. I will definitely try this with my tank too. Merry christmas.
may want to note not to put any living plants under the raised compartment, or else you risk coming home after work to find the water level has dropped in the raised section and the displaced water soaking into the floor, possibly a few fish gone with it
you can just put the bricks in the tank, fill the tank all the way up and then add your suspended tank or vase. because you just move the water from the tank to the vase ,noting should overflow when the water from the vase flows back in the tank
TheHarleyEvans wouldn't this be more dependent on how much space O2 and CO2 take up? Or perhaps the concentrations of O2 and CO2 in the water? Chances are the fish breathe out more CO2 than the plants make O2, and in any case, CO2 takes up more space than O2. Relating to your thought may be the circulation of water... rather, the circulation of air and the pressure at the top of the vase. If air in the water in the vase didn't circulate at all with the air in the tank, then any fish that goes up there would die after some point due to lack of oxygen. But that probably doesn't happen because the air pressure equalizes across the tank and vase. But this brings up another problem, the pressure of the water in the vase. The water wants to go down, and air wants to go up. This may cause the air in the water to go up to the top of the vase. So I suppose the problem of water being displaced by air in the vase is still there.
joe chu hats all well and good but the oxygen released from aquatic plants doesnt immediately dissolve into the water again, it bubbles and the floats up, then it doesnt dissolve and the buubble in the top of the compartment wil just grow and grow
bettas go up to the surface to gulp air, maybe that would help p:
joe chu wouldnt help the water that WAS at the top flowing out of the tank
I would not recommend having an air-stone with this suspended feature, as you could come home to a soggy floor.
Even on the other side?
Near my home, there's a pond where such a raised compartment allows the fish to survive winter. I think the idea is that it won't freeze over since it's not exposed to air, so it'll let in sunlight. I figure there's more to it - they probably have to circulate the water - but it's nifty anyway.
Fish like exploration and compartments like this or different items in the tank would be appreciated by them. Plus it is a new way to view the fish. Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Why not just sink the glass into the tank letting it fill up with water then flip it over then pull it out?
Gerald Ander Lee thought the same thats what I did .
Gerald Ander Lee takes a lot of strength for such a large vase, also, risky, as the glass vase wasn't meant to hold pressure
Gerald Ander Lee I think Baloo Bear is right. If your glass vase has a weak spot it can probably break with that pressure.
Unlikely, glass is quite strong. I've done this with a 2 gallon jar before and it was fine.
If you're doing that method in an already decorated/established tank the process of flipping it over will disturb the other decorations/fish you have in your tank. You can also keep the outside of the glass dry and clean with this method.
am i forced to drink up the water when cleaning ?
+youngchris209 No, you blow air in when you want to empty it.
+youngchris209 yes you must drink it all.
ok
+John Doe shut it ! You troll
+youngchris209 forced? more like privileged!
I have being looking for this more than a month...you are amazing!
my puffers love this. their 125 gallon also serves as a coffee table in the middle of the main room and they follow me back and forth like dogs. the tank has blue panels on the ends which seemed to annoy them because they were always waiting for me when i went out of sight into the kitchen. i put a 10 gallon up on stilts so they could swim up and see over the top. i floated a prawn into it to lure them into discovering that they could swim up past the water line. puffs are so smart anyway, but this was so exciting you could almost see them thinking, watching each other swim up and look around. really cool thing. and no bad side effects as far as water quality, just better beggars at dinner time.
hey, are you alive?? i have a doubt that can this second storey container develop ammonia gas in it and thereby it becomes lethal for the fishes if they go up to gasp...
I had an idea while watching the video you could make a glass top so it would not need the bricks in there just rest the vase on the glass
Fuck yeah dude a whole-nother level of fish tanks
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This is really cool... I'm going to do this in outside pond! Thank you
This came out really well. I am setting up a guppy tank and I'm going to give it a try.
Use clear glass blocks
This is the easiest method I’ve seen so far every one uses a vacuum!
you can also just turn the upper container sideways and fill it with water. then turn it vertical and slowly lift it up and slide the blocks underneath. Just make sure not to lift it high enough to raise above the water level.
Reminds me of the Water Bridge between two tanks, Great Vid !
I did the same thing years ago with an 30 gallon octagon tank in my pond. The Koi love it!
Lol, those fish must be like te...fuccccccccccccck
Is it me or does he look a lot like Wil Wheaton?
+Nothing\ yes!! he does!!! loool
@@maereslater795 If Will Wheaton ran a Bait shop
Blew my mind, hahaha great idea man, been looking for something new to add to my tanks.
I had not even thought about this but I love this idea. Thank you. Also, I just realized this was an old video.
I like your FACE
I like his face and voice.
I like his videos :D
ChauNyan I like everything about him.
I like everything about him, AND his fish!
Caspar Abelmann Suck up! lol
I could imagine water evaporating from the main tank and having water from the elevated vase spill out into the tank and overfilling it
Once the water gets below the level of the jar, just enough would come out to get it back to the level of the jar, stopping it. This would repeat over and over again until the jar is empty. The water wouldn't suddenly empty, it'd only empty enough to reestablish the vacuum in the jar.
That is the first time I have ever seen anything like that. I will be doing this tomorrow. Maybe just to look at it once but I will try it.
I have been subbed for years and this is seriously the coolest channel
What about the amount of oxygen in the fish tank? I wouldn't think that the water in the vacuum would be that healthy.
Nikolaj The water is connected to the rest of the tank, and it's just a bit of a low pressure zone. Not a worry as long as the tank is oxygenated.
Nikolaj It will be fine if it has an air pump, or if the inhabitants are labyrinth fish
***** an air pump might inadvertently ruin the effect by introducing air bubbles.
my aquarium got broken by this
How and why ?
A great know how.With some creative innovative design there's a lot of potential for a spectacular fish tank.
Worth a try, looks very cool.
Im not doing that for my blood parrots,they will probally push the container off
eww blood parrots
why, they are hybrids, thats it
How did he take the tape/tube out?
curly sue I just pulled on it
+NightHawkInLight dats wat she sed
+curly sue He got an octopus to reach up into it.
+curly sue Witchcraft
+curly sue The fish helped him
This was great and the easiest method I've seen so far ... great job
Never would have thought of something like that....very cool!!!
I never even had fish, why am I watching this?
It s 3:33 here in germany. School begins in 4 ours and I started watching GTA Videos. Now I am here. Wtf am I doing with my life
I never thought of doing that, thank you
Realy simple and cool idea! thank you
why not just put the container into the tank right side up, allow it to fill up with water then flip it and pull it out?
Water weighs a fair bit--8lbs to the gallon--making it easier to use pneumatics to aid in the process of filling up the compartment. Also, sticking hands and arms into the water adds more contamination that just the clean vase, tape, and tubing alone.
why not do what you saw in the video?
because there is an easier and quicker way
it's easier to draw a vacuum with your mouth rather than lift a couple of pounds? now we know what you do in your free time...
Ezra Pali yup! Always blowing people, 24/7!
one of my fish gave birth at night and died. now there's over 200 baby zebra danios swimming in my tank. the water is turning thick and foggy and theyre still alive FML
LUL
update: they all died
Dang..RIP watdaNOSTRIL
+watdaNOSTRIL That wasn't a happy ending at all!
+watdaNOSTRIL plot twist: you died
This is awesome! great video! You made it look pretty simple but idk if I have the balls to try this!
This was awesome man!
every time I get fish, they always die within three days
Is the water wet?
***** Good point, seems to be viral!
Taylor Smith Is the water oxygenated all the time? Did you chlorinate the tap water (distill it)? Did you let them get use to ur water? Is your tank in a nitrogen cycle? And this is why it's hard to keep fish lol xD
Hilgert Bos Yeah, can't have viruses in the water can we?
***** Dechlorinate, and you wouldn't distill it, you'd buy something like vitamin C tablets. Distilling water isn't really viable for most people, although distilled water will do well.
you is so handsome and good idea Thanks for share~~*^^*
+Missy Susan "you is"
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FANTASTIC IDEA, and not all that expensive gr8! THANKS
So good! Thanks for sharing!
NightHawkInLight Great video of you sucking and blowing! I really like this aesthetically, but I'm not sure I'd trust it as a failure could cause a lot of damage. Maybe if the vessel could be more securely anchored I'd feel comfortable with it.
seigeengine Could you build a plastic cover for the top of the tank, and then make a cutout for the vase? The lid could be anchored to the sides of the tank, and could even be clear plastic to be able to see in through the top.
Ryan Padua You could, although I'd be a bit worried about ventilation, especially in the case of a power outage or the like where the pump doesn't work. I don't know how much of a difference it would make, but in nature bodies of water are aerated by movement and wind blowing across and agitating the surface It should help the fish survive longer.
Our tank has a system that circulates our water through an oxygenator (probably a word) in the basement, but we have a larger tank than this one. My cousins have a tank with a bubbler and air holes in the top, so that should be fine for a tank of this size. Also, I wouldn't be too worried about a power outage because the fish can live for a bit without continuously flowing oxygen, but you're worried, I'm sure you can find something manual or off-grid to power your tank for a bit. Solar storage is also a good backup for most people.
Ryan Padua Enormous artificial ponds often force air down through a pipe to bubble out, especially during winter. So I know it functions okay on the large scale. Yes, but power outages that last days aren't uncommon outside of cities, and even in cities they happen occasionally. And I'm more worried about things like waste gases diffusing out of the water getting trapped near the surface, building up and preventing the meager passive oxygenation of the water.
seigeengine I have solar panels on our house, and the batteries would easily last through the night until they could recharge (completely off-grid) in the morning. If you can get at least a few, it'll be massively beneficial in the long run for both energy costs and backup (assuming you get decent sunlight). As for the oxygen issue, I think oxygen bubblers do a great job of giving the tank as much oxygen as it needs. It works for my cousins, who have a tank about as big as this.
What kind of fish are those?
+Amanda Martin Rosies
+NightHawkInLight wait so I suck the air out or in?
A better way is to totally submerge the jug so it fills up completely then lift it up upside down so it draws it's own vacuum and the water will stay in. Ever played with a jug in the bathtub? Same idea.
+Mark Blake you suck the air in to raise the water level into the vacuum. You blow air out to lower the water level to remove the vacuum for cleaning and such.
+Doep 100 Yeah but it's gona be heavy and if you screw up there will be wa wa everywhere.
wow this is so simple and fantastic. My brain is bursting with possibilities.
I own an Aquaponic operation and need to visually inspect the fish in the tank. I am going to try this, if nothing els it will be fun to show this to the grand babies.
I would be grossed out if I got dirty tank water in my mouth!
Allen Engasser It'd taste like the freshest damn sardines you'd EVER had. ;)
Jesse Crandle but the fish poop!!!
Allen Engasser Allen, we all have to eat a little shit before we die. ~_~
Jesse Crandle *Dies laughing*
Allen Engasser Chances are you just cleaned the tank though.
You could have done that without the fish. 😔 where'd they go after you guys were done with them?
Good trick. Clever idea. I will try this method for my fish tank.
This is brilliant! Such a cool idea! Because? Physics!
I think I accidentally drank the water ugh
LOVE THIS! WHAT A FABULOUS IDEA! THANKS!
pretty cool, gonna try it
So now you have two shitty looking bricks in your tank and a raised section that cannot be sufficiently oxygenated to keep the fish healthy and will slowly stagnate.
+Danny Smith wow exactly what I said... I mean its cool and all.. but fucking dumb at the same time
I know this is late but you could use an electric pump to circulate water. They have some small battery operated ones. It will allow water to go in and out of the upper area
There's a possibility to do this with some kind of acrylic support or a support mounted to the frame of the aquarium (and holding the jar around the rim somehow) so you don't need ugly bricks... but even with that the look of the jar sticking out of the aquarium is quite unappealing to me... not to mention the constant worry that something would knock it over (earthquakes are rare here but we do have a small fault line only a few km away...).
Luculencia I thought that's y u would remove it, clean it, then put it back.... wow
+Danny Smith, do your homework first. As long as there is nothing separating the suspended water from the rest, and especially if there is something, anything (the aerator, a fish, whatever) to move the water once in a while (not even violently), then the water will not stagnate. Try it with some dye if you don't believe. And as for the "shitty looking bricks," christ, man, it's a fucking EXAMPLE. Do you want a 100 gal. tank with Cinderella's Castle for one video???
I tried this but ended up electing Trump! :(
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i love this idea. i just used an glass (wine) bottle, filled it up w/tank water and inverted it and stuck it in the food door of the tank's cover. the long narrow neck of the bottle fit through the food door and is holding it in place upside down.
I think it's an amazing project! But I need to mention that I have the same blocks in my 2 60-gallon aquariums as decoration and they're starting to break down, leaving tiny bits in the gravel. They're not hurting anything, but if your gravel is a dark color, the bits would be visible and look out-of-place.
I would think concrete would affect water PH drastically.
I do like this, although i would want to fit an over-flow at the normal waterline and top it back up, regardless brilliant idea.
Really cool I like it, is there some other way to suspend it though as the bricks displace same amount of water as the tube gives.
This is super cool!!! I want to try it! Thanks!!
Amazing. Learned something new.
Superb idea, this is simple and useful, makes space for fishes and looks beautiful. Thanks for sharing.