Let's see your DIY jank!

[Chris]

Title says it all, folks - lets see your janky DIY equipment!

 

I'll start.

 

This is how I hung these pendant light fixtures as a teenager. I wasn't allowed to hang them from the ceiling, so I bought some 1" PVC, spray painted them black, and zip-tied the fixtures to them. Honestly worked rather well!

 

Around the same time, I was also making DIY protein skimmers with Powerade bottles. You can see it on the left of this tank.

 

It worked! Just not very well, lol.

 

Let's see your jank!

[GoofyGarra]

I made this Zucchini feeder out of air supplies for sinking the zucchini.

[Odd Duck]

I have the fanciest water mixing barrel filling system ever.  Taco Bell cup with a hole in the bottom and slit cut in the side that I fit over the too short hose and drop over the side of the kitchen sink into the barrel.  The hook is handy when I want to mix faster and I hang the fill hook on it so water gets pumped from the bottom to the top to mix better.  Suuuuper fancy set up right here!  
 

I also have a veeeerrrry high tech set up for unbagging fish.  Bulldog clip to hold the edge of my oldest but softest net with a handle bent just right to fit over this specific bucket that I’ve had for at least 25 years now.  Soooo fancy!  Notice the “custom” corners on this favorite old net.  I only have about a dozen nets but this one is still my favorite for unbagging fish and sometimes for catching, too.  It’s the bent handle that does it for me. 

 

 

[Chris]

5 hours ago, Odd Duck said:

I have the fanciest water mixing barrel filling system ever.  Taco Bell cup with a hole in the bottom and slit cut in the side that I fit over the too short hose and drop over the side of the kitchen sink into the barrel.  The hook is handy when I want to mix faster and I hang the fill hook on it so water gets pumped from the bottom to the top to mix better.  Suuuuper fancy set up right here!  
 

I also have a veeeerrrry high tech set up for unbagging fish.  Bulldog clip to hold the edge of my oldest but softest net with a handle bent just right to fit over this specific bucket that I’ve had for at least 25 years now.  Soooo fancy!  Notice the “custom” corners on this favorite old net.  I only have about a dozen nets but this one is still my favorite for unbagging fish and sometimes for catching, too.  It’s the bent handle that does it for me. 

 

 

That taco bell cup is totally something I'd do, lol. If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid!

[Odd Duck]

2 hours ago, Chris said:

That taco bell cup is totally something I'd do, lol. If it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid!

Been working for 4 years now.  😆 

[HelplessNewbie]

Perfect timing since my family is helping to move a few things around in my 20 gallon long (see signature), giving us some picture taking opportunities. I love DIY threads, so I will join in!

 

 

On the left is an internal jar filter normally disguised by more plants than this. Filled from bottom to up with: stones to weigh down the black plastic jar; a nano-sized powerhead/water pump with a black output pipe directed straight up (not visible), and its intake openings covered with thin layer of foam to keep debris out of the impeller; layers of nylon pot scrubbers; black large pore foam; and a spare adjustable pipe to direct outflow.

 

In the center is a nano-sized, powerhead-driven filter that we usually put in for temporary use. Small sections of clear water change hose are fitted over the input and output of the pump, then fit through holes in the bottle caps. Both blue disposable water bottle top halves contain white polyfill floss, and then black large pore foam, to keep the fish from the floss.

 

On the right is a black vinyl tube to target feed my bottom dwellers. The bottom end of the pipe has a grill made out of super glue craft mesh, to keep the greedy ones from getting stuck in pipe. I leave it permanently attached.

[NoCo tap water]

Oh this is my chance to shine ! Zipties and hope holding my stuff together.

 

needed 2 more inches

 

Bucket fill technique.

overhead sump inlet 

Edited November 26 by NoCo tap water

[Tanked]

36 minutes ago, NoCo tap water said:

Oh this is my chance to shine ! Zipties and hope holding my stuff together.

 

 

Bucket fill technique.

 

 

Is that a store bought adaptor on the faucet?

[NoCo tap water]

11 minutes ago, Tanked said:

Is that a store bought adaptor on the faucet?

It's the adapter for my amazon python. Just so happens to fit.

[tyler james]

let's see your janky DIY equipment! Whether it's a patched-together contraption or something hilariously unconventional, we're here to share the laughs. I'll start by showing off my own latest DIY project—let's just say it doesn't exactly look like something you'd find in a store. If you're working with something like this, you might want to check out this water pipe cap to improve the setup. Now, let's see what you've got!

[Surreal]

On 11/26/2024 at 12:19 PM, NoCo tap water said:

Oh this is my chance to shine ! Zipties and hope holding my stuff together.

I am a firm believer that we would still be stuck in the stone age if we didn't have zip tie technology bestowed upon us.

[Section8]

I have a couple of simple hacks.

 

First, faucet rig for filling 75g tank, in the next room.

 

 

Second, brine shrimp setup.  The round black thing on the left is a hatcher I bought from Amazon.  The water bath in an old 5g tank keeps the hatcher at about 80deg to increase the yield.

[NoCo tap water]

The more I look the more jank to be proud of.

 

Improvise, adapt, or bully it into working.

 

My janky brine shrimp set up. Able to run two reactors at once. Just don’t turn that air off…….

 

Janky moveable autofeeder setup

 

Janky overhead sump leveling (It’s temporary,,,,,,  for the past 1.5 years.)

 

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by NoCo tap water