A Turkey Baster: How important is it in reefing?

[innovusaquaculture]

I use it all the time. I'm also completely annoyed when my wife borrows it for her Betta fish tank and doesn't tell me. The time wasted looking for a $2 piece of plastic!

Ahhh... Just two bucks to not be annoyed with the wife. Now that is an investment.....

Why buy one when you can have 2?

 

[JoeReefinGood]

1. Do you own a turkey baster that you use for reef aquarium tasks?
Yup
2. What types of tasks do you use a turkey baster for in reefing?
Usually to stir up detritus in hard to reach places and blow sand off corals without having to move them. Also helps to spot feed certain fish that like to hang out in their burrow like my yellowhead jawfish for example.

 

[dieselkeeper]

I tried it and it took too much time. Plus gave me hand cramps. I now use a small power head and use filter floss instead of filter socks to quickly filter out the nasties.

 

[Nhjmc]

Use very often! I've got a smaller "coral feeder" type baster I purchased from Amazon and just a good ol turkey baster I picked up at Dollar General I use to blast of LR when doing water change and also cleaning sand bed.

 

[Susan Edwards]

1.Yes

2. Feeding defrosted frozen food, cleaning rocks frags equipment, and keeping aggressive fish away from my hands while I scrape the glass.

+1 on keeping nasty clowns away from my hands!
also use to blow sand. A small section at a time and feeding corals. I defrost frozen in those squirt ketchup bottles. Do up a day or 2's worth and put in fridge

 

[G Santana]

8 months in and the wife is now noticing items missing from her kitchen, these include, but not limited to, 2 turkey basters, 1 complete set of measuring cups, several Tupperware containers, a few hand towels, several rolls of paper towels a bottle of windex and assorted spoons, scissors and other implements.
Yeah, I'm up to 3 basters lol
She bagged me yesterday eyeing her measuring spoons... I could be in trouble

 

[Calm Blue Ocean]

I like to call it a turkey BLASTER and it's an awesome tool. It's amazing how much crap settles in the rocks and needs to be blasted out!

 

[lapin]

I found the best one is the OXO brand
There is a plastic piece that the bulb snaps into.
Comes apart easy and goes back together easy.
No more bulb sealing issues after cleaning it out

 

[lapin]

8 months in and the wife is now noticing items missing from her kitchen, these include, but not limited to, 2 turkey basters, 1 complete set of measuring cups, several Tupperware containers, a few hand towels, several rolls of paper towels a bottle of windex and assorted spoons, scissors and other implements.
Yeah, I'm up to 3 basters lol
She bagged me yesterday eyeing her measuring spoons... I could be in trouble

I go to garage/estate sales. Cheap source for all your kitchen needs. Fish stuff is better looking than some of our kitchen stuff

 

[BigSkyRich]

Oh, I don't know. Whats a turkey baster?

Third one from the left, I think

 

[carbasaurus]

I use one everyday. My bullet goby likes to bury my corals in sand and I need to clear them once or twice a day. But hey, at least the sand is clean!

 

[Gort]

When I want to blow off my rocks I use a Maxijet 1200 with a short piece of pipe on it.

That's a great idea; I never thought of using a little pump!

 

[AVVITT]

Yes!
I use it for blasting my corals when I'm dipping them.
Also getting the crud off the rocks just before a water change.
I've also used it for sucking up GHA

 

[Yellow Coris Wrasse]

They are handy for blowing sand off of scolys.

 

[LPS Bum]

Hugely important.

I have two reef-only turkey basters, and use them a couple of times a week to blow off rocks, get detritus out of crevices, and clean up the top layer of the sand bed. I'd hate to think how my tank would look without it.

 

[dkfrosty1]

Turkey blaster, tongs, measuring cups all stolen from my kitchen for my tank lol.

 

[Sebastiancrab]

I use mine to both clean off sediment on rocks and stuff but also when acclimating new fish to the tanks...

So how is it used to acclimate new fish?

 

[bigjgmac]

It's not made for reefing but it has many benefits for those of us keeping aquariums. It feeds, blasts, sucks and more but is it as important to you as it is others? It's cheap enough but are there better tools for the tasks that the turkey baster can accomplish? Who even cares? HA! I hope you do! Let's talk about it today!

1. Do you own a turkey baster that you use for reef aquarium tasks?

2. What types of tasks do you use a turkey baster for in reefing?

It’s a multitasker if there ever was one: feeding, blasting rocks, rearranging sand, etc…

 

[Doctorgori]

I have 4 and use them for everything from feeding to detritus removal … probably along with tongs the most important “hand tool” in reefing

 

[Bruce Burnett]

I use to use one but went to using small pump to clean rocks. Now I use a feeder or regular syringe with long tube to spot feed.