How does a siphon vacuum for aquariums work?

Question

I was looking at Marineland's website (www.marineland.com) and cam across Siphon kleen and I was wondering how exactly it worked.

Answer 1

The physics is atmosphere pressure and gravity causing siphon action. Water will flow from a higher place to a lower one.

You pump the intake (up and down with your arm) until you get steady flow into the bucket below. Remove siphon to stop action.

Answer 2

Basic physics just like a siphoning from a gas tank. Place a bucket lower than the tank. Put the wide end into the tank. Repeatedly shove the wide end into the gravel until you have a bunch of gravel in the tube. Pull up slightly, and let the gravel fall. At this point you've forced water down the tube. Gravity pull the water down the tube. Leaving a partial vacuum, which pulls more water to fill it...... There are also other ways to do it. Put the whole thing in the water, and let fill with water. Cover one end, and put the small end in the bucket..... Or just suck on the small end...

Answer 3

placed the enormous end of the tube interior the water and gradually placed the smaller end of the hose into the water. the assumption is to maintain the hose packed with water with none air in it. as quickly as the hose is filled, placed your thumb over the small end of the hose. Take the small end of the hose and carry it below the water point of the tank and do away with your thumb from the top of the hose, diverting the water right into a bucket. at the same time because it siphons the water out, plunge the enormous end into the gravel and pull it decrease back out. you will start to work out the nastiness from the gravel passing with the aid of the hose. Repeat this step until your bucket is close to to finished or you have drained a million/3 of the tank.

Answer 4

well to get it to work fill it up with water then lower one end and other end still in the tank the water will be pulled out, thus making a current, all water will now follow-its kind of like that.