EVERY Fishkeeper Should Have Atleast One of These

I bet if you used a larger gauge of gravel, you could even go above the "faucet" and it would still drain.

These would be great if you are breeding nano fish and needed a grow out tank. Doing daily water changes would be very easy.

I have used these for scuds and daphnia cultures. The spout doesn't dispense the live food, usually they are fast enough to swim away, but its good for water changing.

What an awesome idea! I never even thought to use a container like that for fish. At the beginning of this year I needed a couple small hospital tanks to treat a couple fish. These would have made the water changes way easier and much less stress on the fish. I’m getting a few of these in different sizes. Thank you for sharing this. You earned a thumbs up from me and my subscription

I use a glass jar with a spout for my moina culture. I use a net when I drain and refill with green water. Super handy.

If you use gravel, you could conceivably fill above the spout. I hope you show this in use in an upcoming video.

I use these for brine shrimp hatcheries

I initially was uncertain but it's definitely a clever idea. Especially for a hospital tank that you need to do water changes on every day.

So I've got a 1 gallon glass one from Hobby Lobby about 6 months back or so. I filled it with salt water I made using Instant Ocean with a specific gravity of 1.025, dropped some baby brine shrimp that I hatched and now they're completely self-sustaining. I'm going to try to drop some newly hatched Amano shrimp zoes in and see if they'll grow out in there. Cheers! ~Ron SUBSCRIBED!

I have used the 3 gallon glass ones for years. I bought them on sale at the end of the summer and I still use 3 of them. I have a thin layer of sand and plants in tiny pots in the bottom and a sponge over the tap/spout inlet. I also use a nano sponge filter and the smallest Eheim preset heater fits perfectly. I use them in my guppy and molly breeding projects. If I need to separate a favorite female for a week or so until I decide which male to pair her with. I also sometimes let a female give birth in one and raise fry for just one week. For the first week of fry raising it's handy so they can find food easily and no larger fry or fish chasing them. After a week they can hold their own in a larger grow out tank with older fry and even adults if there are hiding places. Using smaller tanks and containers like this has more than doubled the amount of guppy and molly fry I get compared to any other method I've tried. I wouldn't use them to keep fish in long term and I wouldn't recommend newbies use them because you really have to understand cycling and testing in such a small amount of water.

I've been looking at these just for the container itself not even thinking to use the spout to do water changes. That's genius! I've been wanting to do shrimp tanks.

I have a couple of those rectangle ones - minus the spout and handles - that I use as hospital tanks. I drilled a hole in each lid to add a small airstone (at very low air pressure).

i definitely thought about that stuff for brine shrimp hatcheries

This is a great idea for quarantining a small amount of fish when I bring them home from the shop before they go into my main tank. I can even dose them for parasites etc in a smaller volume of water. Well done Joanna.

Good tip, Joanna. I'll keep this in mind. Thank you!

Perfect. You could put in an undergravel filter high enough so that the gravel & plants are above. Then you can drain all the excrement that filters through the gravel by opening up the drain. Nice thick substrate with the underground filter space to drain the excrement.

There must be lots of ways these could be used in the aquarium hobby, thanks for sharing

Great idea for a betta tank.

This would be great for a live daphnia culture. Another one could be used for growing green water to feed the daphnia.

Great idea. Even works for a resurrection jar for Father Fish shoal members ❤