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A couple people asked if they could see some photos of the DIY larval snagger I just recently built. Here is a run down of the parts used:
1. Large sized Lee's specimen container
2. Small sized Lee's specimen container
3. A nylon mesh media bag (I think it came free with some GFO or GAC I bought awhile ago).
4. RIO 50 pump (plus the little cheapo ball valve fitting it comes with)
5. U-Tube
6. Air check valve
7. One of those return line black elbow/U-tube fittings, you'll get it when you see it
8. Some spare 1/4 inch acrylic. Cut to form a frame around the mesh
9. LED flashlight
10. Lots of electrical tape :lol:
I still have some bugs to work out with the U-Tube. This is the siphon from the tank and adjusting its height so that it sits about 1/4 inch under the surface of the tank is being accomplished with a block of wood electrical taped to the U-tube. Very ghetto, but effective.
Take a look, feel free to ask questions, comments and criticisms are appreciated since this is a work in progress.
Here are the pictures:
Front View showing size. Works well on my rack of 10 gallon tanks.
Top, Left and Right Views:
You can see in this shot how I cut a square into the small sized specimen container. I then cut to frames out of acrylic and sandwiched a piece of the mesh bag into them. I simply superglued the mesh sandwich onto the hole I cut in the specimen container.
You can see the ghetto-ness of the whole U-Tube thing. Still need to figure out a clean way to adjust the height of the U-tube for the different tanks but again it is a work in progress. Also I cut a piece of 1/2 inch PVC and taped the crap out of it onto the U-Tube so that the LED fashlight could be slid inside and shine down the tube into the tank to lure in the little beasties.
The air check valve is jammed into the top of the U-Tube in order to start the siphon.
The flow is regulated by the ball valve which is inserted into the RIO 50 and then the return tube is jammed onto the ball valves' other end. I was pretty please to be able to make the majority of this out of spare parts I had lying around. The only things I had to purchase were the two specimen containers which came to around 20 bucks.
Thanks for looking
Kurt
1. Large sized Lee's specimen container
2. Small sized Lee's specimen container
3. A nylon mesh media bag (I think it came free with some GFO or GAC I bought awhile ago).
4. RIO 50 pump (plus the little cheapo ball valve fitting it comes with)
5. U-Tube
6. Air check valve
7. One of those return line black elbow/U-tube fittings, you'll get it when you see it
8. Some spare 1/4 inch acrylic. Cut to form a frame around the mesh
9. LED flashlight
10. Lots of electrical tape :lol:
I still have some bugs to work out with the U-Tube. This is the siphon from the tank and adjusting its height so that it sits about 1/4 inch under the surface of the tank is being accomplished with a block of wood electrical taped to the U-tube. Very ghetto, but effective.
Take a look, feel free to ask questions, comments and criticisms are appreciated since this is a work in progress.
Here are the pictures:
Front View showing size. Works well on my rack of 10 gallon tanks.
Top, Left and Right Views:
You can see in this shot how I cut a square into the small sized specimen container. I then cut to frames out of acrylic and sandwiched a piece of the mesh bag into them. I simply superglued the mesh sandwich onto the hole I cut in the specimen container.
You can see the ghetto-ness of the whole U-Tube thing. Still need to figure out a clean way to adjust the height of the U-tube for the different tanks but again it is a work in progress. Also I cut a piece of 1/2 inch PVC and taped the crap out of it onto the U-Tube so that the LED fashlight could be slid inside and shine down the tube into the tank to lure in the little beasties.
The air check valve is jammed into the top of the U-Tube in order to start the siphon.
The flow is regulated by the ball valve which is inserted into the RIO 50 and then the return tube is jammed onto the ball valves' other end. I was pretty please to be able to make the majority of this out of spare parts I had lying around. The only things I had to purchase were the two specimen containers which came to around 20 bucks.
Thanks for looking
Kurt
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