Reddit reviews Tornado Tube - Assorted Colors

You can recreate this yourself for the low price of $4.52: https://smile.amazon.com/TEDCO-TT-200-Tornado-Tube-Assorted/dp/B000GYSZOI?sa-no-redirect=1

FWIW that cleaning coupler looks like it's pretty much the same as one of these tornado tube things that you can get a little cheaper. It's also useful for setting up a gravity system.

My gravity setup: 1.5ml Evernew Bladder -> Squeeze -> Tornado Tube--> 1L Smartwater or another Evernew.

you can find these at kids science type stores, some walmarts etc.

they just need a bit of trimming
tornado tube

https://www.amazon.com/TEDCO-TT-200-Tornado-Tube-Assorted/dp/B000GYSZOI

Yeah it is a long drive, but just get up early and drive out there, takes a couple hours, and trust me, it's worth it. In Ocala, you can hike all day, then setup camp, and then walk over and go swimming in a spring, two nights in a row. But you need to either hike with a partner and self shuttle, or pay someone to drop you off on the other end of the trail. But definitely you want some easier overnights under your belt. I think Hillsborough and Starkey would be good shakedown hikes.

1. Water. There's a million ways to make water, this way is one of the best. Get two smartwater bottles, 1 or 1.5L each, and a sawyer squeeze, and a tornado tube. The tornado tube lets you mate any standard water/soda bottle or bladder onto both ends of the sawyer filter. Just fill up the bladder with dirty water, and roll the bag to force water through the filter. Clean, drinkable water comes out the other side into your smartwater bottles. 3L is plenty of capacity for this area. Most times you will only need one bottle, but it's nice to have the second so you can fill it up before getting into camp. You can also add to this kit a 20oz water or soda bottle with the top cut off. This is a cheap, light "scoop", that let's you scoop up standing water and pour it into the sawyer bladder. you'll find it's hard to fill that bladder otherwise if you're trying to use water that isn't moving. (Remember, you can boil water to purify it, but this is florida and boiled swamp water is still swamp water, you'll want to filter it for it to be palatable.)
   
   
2. I am guessing you have a backpacking stove. If not, get one, and you'll need a ultralight cookpot. To start, a msr pocket rocket or micro-rocket is a good beginner's system. (I use alcohol stove, but you can work up to that later). You'll also need a cookpot. My lightweight, cheap option of choice is the imusa 12cm pot, which you can find at walmart for about $8. Bring a bandana or something to hold it though, because it gets HOT. You'll use this to boil water for cooking foods. I've had every one of these recipes, and they are all solid, and cheap to make from common grocery store items. The portions and cooking instructions are all dialed in too. http://andrewskurka.com/section/how-to/food-nutrition/meal-recipes/
   
   
   Edit: alcohol is cheaper, and since you're student, if you want advice on making an alcohol stove, you can start here: http://andrewskurka.com/2011/how-to-make-a-fancy-feast-alcohol-stove/

I have collapsible 5 gallon containers (plastic similar to the sawyer bags) and one of the adapters to make 2L bottles into a tornado in my car camping kit. Dirty bag > filter > adapter > clean bag. Hang or drape over a log and let it do its thing.

Edit: u/Swingmerightround I am leaving my mobile mess above, but wanted to edit that they are 5L, not 5G. Still a chunk of water. Containers and Adapter

Pretty sure he's using this, they're designed for it, but if you really want to do it low budget, the same effect can be created with some tape and the original caps.