Blue reputation point?

**geowashlaw** · 02-19-2009, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by Lady Hobbs

No one should get any red ones here. A forum is for everyones opinion and not for someone to give you bad rep if they don't happen to like yours. It's kind of an insult, really.

there are some people around though that have difficulty expressing their opinions without being arrogant and condescending ...

**Wild Turkey** · 02-19-2009, 12:32 AM

Originally Posted by Algenco

the acknowledgment is more important than the amount of points

Ed Zachery!

Originally Posted by geowashlaw

there are some people around though that have difficulty expressing their opinions without being arrogant and condescending ...

You're Right, but you arent exactly setting a good example with that statement are you? ;) Just dont acknowledge them.

**Algenco** · 02-19-2009, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by geowashlaw

there are some people around though that have difficulty expressing their opinions without being arrogant and condescending ...

then it should be discussed in PM

**geowashlaw** · 02-19-2009, 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by Algenco

then it should be discussed in PM

oh, I just blow it off and don't ever make a big deal about it ... it just makes their advice harder to take

**cocoa_pleco** · 02-19-2009, 01:38 AM

another one here for starting siphons by mouth. the instructions always say to shake the siphon up and down rapidly to get it going but thats never worked for me, and i would imagine its hard to do without smacking into something. really unless youre not paying attention to what youre doing its hard to get water in your mouth starting a siphon by mouth

**Algenco** · 02-19-2009, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by geowashlaw

oh, I just blow it off and don't ever make a big deal about it ... it just makes their advice harder to take

understandable

**Wild Turkey** · 02-19-2009, 01:54 AM

Originally Posted by cocoa_pleco

another one here for starting siphons by mouth. the instructions always say to shake the siphon up and down rapidly to get it going but thats never worked for me, and i would imagine its hard to do without smacking into something. really unless youre not paying attention to what youre doing its hard to get water in your mouth starting a siphon by mouth

When i use my smaller siphon i submerge it as much as i can and let the air bubbles rise out...then i put my thumb on the end, pull all but the end of the siphon out and down towards the bucket and take my thumb off. Works

And no fish water in the mouth

**Crispy** · 02-19-2009, 01:57 AM

Originally Posted by Wild Turkey

When i use my smaller siphon i submerge it as much as i can and let the air bubbles rise out...then i put my thumb on the end, pull all but the end of the siphon out and down towards the bucket and take my thumb off. Works

And no fish water in the mouth

I do the same! Works like a charm everytime!

**labnjab** · 02-19-2009, 04:21 AM

Originally Posted by Lady Hobbs

And here comes another tube sucker! I always do it that way!

We do too on our reef, lol, i want to know exactly how much we are taking out so we can replace it with the same, so we siphon with a gravel vac without the vac (just the hose) into a jug. i use a python on the FW tanks