Patent ID: 8720377
Filing Date: 2014-05-13
Classification: A01K

Abstract:
1. A method to transfer a fish from a first aquarium to a second aquarium, the method comprising the steps of: forming an outer container to hold water; forming an inner container having holes and placing the inner container inside an open top of the outer container; mounting an upper metering guide having two thru holes in the inner container; mounting a lower metering guide having one hole in the inner container; connecting a first tube from the lower metering guide one thru hole to a thru hole in the upper metering guide and extending the first tube to outside the outer container to a drain end; capturing a creature from the first aquarium in the outer and inner containers; transporting the outer and inner containers from the first aquarium to adjacent the second aquarium; inserting a siphon tube from the second aquarium to the inner container; starting a siphon from the second aquarium thru the siphon tube to the lower metering guide to the first tube and out the drain end; transferring the siphon tube inner container end from the lower metering guide to an empty thru hole in the upper metering guide thereby forming a first siphon from the aquarium thru the siphon tube and out the empty thru hole of the upper metering guide; and forming a second siphon from the lower metering guide thru channel to thru the first tube and out the drain end.