DIY pools, bubbler

nplusb · Post by **nplusb** » Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:05 pm

hello:)

im thinking of making my own pools for my crabs using silicone, pebbles, ans shells and suck. i have read up on it and know to use 100% silicone and to not make it so thick it takes for ever to cure which was apparently a common mistake >.> lol

but what i need help on is making a DIY bubbler, i think i remember seeing one or more threads on here late one night but cant seem to find them again

i would appreciate any advice and lick to the bubbler thread please

Thank you

KrabbyKelly · Post by **KrabbyKelly** » Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:24 pm

I made pools out of plastic containers, an in and out ramp made of plastic craft canvas, an air stone for each pool ( 1 salt water and 1 freshwater pool in my case), aquarium tubing and a cheap 2 outlet aquarium air pump. All the supplies came from walmart or things I had around the house. I am technologically challenged, but if my 15 year old will get off of facebook, I will have her post a picture. The air pump sits outside my tank, the tubing goes from the pump to the pool with the airstone on the end sitting in the water. I poked a small hole in the screen lid of my tank for each tube, that the tubing fits tightly into so they don't escape. The ramps are an upside down v shape, 1 side in the pool, and one side out of it into the substrate, made of strips of the plastic canvas, held together with hemp string and secured to a base of the same plastic canvas. I piled river rock on top of the base so there is a layer of it on the bottom of the pool, one end deeper than the other so they can crawl around, totally submerge if they want, but it's still safe for small crabs.

edjskier · Post by **edjskier** » Sun Jun 26, 2011 8:36 pm

I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to drill up thought the bottom of there water dish and put in a tube for bubbling. You could use safe silicone and if its deep enough, you could even put on stone diffuser. I would like to try on my groovy jacuzzi. Has anyone heard or tried of this??

chloe92us · Post by **chloe92us** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 9:16 am

I don't see why you couldn't drill up---I thought about doing that too. You could shoot the opening with spray foam on the bottom, and some silicone on the top side (inside the jacuzzi). My pool is in the corner of the tank so I just ran the tubing down into it. I would just leave about an inch of tubing above the hole, so you can put a rock on it so the air stone will sit flat in the pool.

For the OP, I don't know if your question was answered, but to do a bubbler pool, you need a small air pump (get the smallest one they make- like a 10), tubing (which usually is not included with the air pump), and an air stone or disk. They are normally all together in the store. The pump will be around $12, tubing $3, stones $2. It makes such a difference and the crabs love it!

All you do is attach the tubing to the pump. Run the tubing into the tank to where your pool is, attach the air stone (which is what disperses the air from the pump and makes it bubble), place a rock on top of the tube so it lies flat in the pool, and voila! Bubbler!