Restarting a siphon on an over hang box.

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gemach7

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Ok last night I did some maintenance on my sump and broke the siphon by mistake. When I started the siphon there was only salt water water in the tank no life so didn't have qualms about starting the siphon with my mouth. Now I have live stock I'm not doing this lol. What ways can I pull water through the box without sucking on an airline tube?


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I'd do it exactly like you did before. You need to get the air bubble out of there. They make tubes with pumps on them, but I've never seen one in a LFS.
 
I use to put a small air tubing through the pipe to the water in the back and siphon it till the water comes through. Worked everytime for me.
 
I Cheat on this I run my syphon hose to the sump from my tank so it can feed the pump than I use a gallon bottle with tank water and dump into overflow you be amazed how fast it catches
 
Thanks all:)
Got it started! used a water bottle drilled a hole in the lid cut the water bottle in half and attached my shop vac wasn't a pretty way but it worked lol.


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