How do i suck water out of a water tank with a half inch hose without using my mouth? i need a gravity flow.?

Question

I want to suck water from one tank to another.One tank is higher than the other.

Answer 1

You do realize that they sell syphon pumps cheap right?

Answer 2

You need a hose which will reach to a point lower than the water tank on the ground.

Place the entire hose slowly into the tank, letting the hose fill up with water as you drop it in.

When only a small portion of the hose remains unsubmerged, simply kink off the upper end.

Slowly draw the hose out of the tank. You must leave one end of the hose in the tank guaranteed. The top portion (in your hand) must reach a point outside the tank, and below the surface of the water in the tank.

The further down below the water surface the "exit end" of the hose is, the more pressure you will develop, and the rate of water flow will be increased.

A water bubble, if large enough, will destroy the siphon effect. The maximum size of a water bubble is dependant on the length of hose outside the water tank.

Answer 3

If you have access to a garden faucet hook the hose up As usual and turn the tap on putting water into the upper tank, then crimp the hose by hand, turn off the water and unscrew the hose and insert unscrewed end into new tank . Releasing crimped section will allow gravity to push water from one higher tank into lower tank and you do not have to suck or blow or anything

Answer 4

Make sure the tank with the water in it is the higher one, also your hose can't be held up higher than the higher tank, your hose may be to thick or maybe you are just not sucking long enough, I have drained a 20 gallen fish tank using this method.

Answer 5

Siphoning: Fill the hose with water. Without losing a drop, plug one end and carefully lower the other end to the bottom of the tank. Drape the water-filled hose into an inverted-U so that the free end is outside the tank and the free (temporarily-stopped) end is BELOW the end inside the tank. Unplug the free end and --- voila! --- a siphoning action will drain your water tank.

This will work as long as the height of the siphon tube is not too far above the tank bottom. See reference below,

Answer 6

Pop one end of the hose in the full tank and suck on the other end until the water gets to the end and then put your thumb over that end and quickly put it in the other tank and remove your thumb. I did this years ago at school and it does work.

Answer 7

fill the hose with water under the tap,hold your finger on one end to block the water escaping, when full put a finger of your other hand over that end too, DONT take off your fingers,
put one end in the water tank and the other end aimed at whever the water is to go to, then let remove your fingers from both ends of the pipe and away she flows, if not then some air was in the pipe, repeat the above.

Answer 8

put the entire hose in the higher tank, and allow it to fill up with water. Close off one end with your thumb or something to make a good seal. Put that end in the lower tank (make sure the end in the higher tank stays submerged) and let'er rip!

Answer 9

Insert the hose in the tank letting it fill till all bubbles are gone. Then Holding your thumb over the end place the end into the other tank and voila!

Answer 10

use an old garden hose cut long enough to put it ALL down into the water to completely fill it with the water but long enough to put the drainage end lower than the water level to drain it out into a container or to the ground. Be sure to hold your finger over BOTH ends after it is filled up then remove fingers after you lower the one end to the ground. It will vacumm itself out.

Answer 11

They make small pumps that will do that. They cost less than $100 to buy, I imagine you rent one a lot cheaper. If the tank you want to remove the water from is the higher one though, siphoning will do.

-Dio