Glass bottle in reef tank

sfin52 · Jul 16, 2020

Mr_Knightley said:
So, I have pictures of my current bottles!
The green one is just an avocado oil bottle, nothing special. I'll be breaking this one.
The little blue one is a vintage Portuguese wine bottle, found during a recent grandfather visit. I't to cool to break, so I'm going to just drill a hole in the back to allow water to flow through.

Nice. Looking forward to seeing how these turn out

xxkenny90xx · Jul 16, 2020

Oprah lol

sfin52 · Jul 17, 2020

CavalierReef said:
That jug is amazing!! Not digging the Tupperware though. :-)

I've got Tupperware in my tank at the moment. Use it too get rfa and leathers to attatch to rubble

Twink_w_a_Reef · Jul 18, 2020

This is a bit random, but when people were asking what lives in the bottles, my Regal Tang likes one. She’s been hiding in it and eating algae off the bottom of it. I can’t get a picture because when I get close she swims out of it. But yeah, Tang approved.

154162 · Jul 19, 2020

I dig it! I wouldn’t put it in in my tank, but It’s really cool! I saw somebody use those skull head bottles of vodka and it was getting covered in some coral (can’t remember what coral exactly)

Brewers best · Jul 19, 2020

This is a sweet idea. Put it on my to do list...that means it will take forever to get done.

Mr_Knightley · Jul 19, 2020

Both bottles are done and in tank, now I just need more! I'll post pics later.

Fezbearer · Jul 19, 2020

I kind of wanted to do something similar with a tiki mug, but I'm scared of what might leech out of the glaze.

sfin52 · Jul 20, 2020

Mr_Knightley said:
Both bottles are done and in tank, now I just need more! I'll post pics later.

Pics or it never happened

sfin52 · Jul 20, 2020

There where 3 fawns but I was only able to capture two of them. They where following mom. I didnt realize a deer could have triplets

Mr_Knightley · Jul 20, 2020

Finished the oil bottle, it needs some coral on it now lol Progress update on the wine bottle, I ran out of superglue(waht I used to get the sand on the oil bottle) and tried to use Aquavitro Bond, it failed though so now I'm just kind of letting it sit. You can see what I meant when I said I'd drill holes in the back, I just thought the bottle was too pretty to potentially destroy.
Enjoy.

sfin52 · Jul 20, 2020

Mr_Knightley said:
Finished the oil bottle, it needs some coral on it now lol Progress update on the wine bottle, I ran out of superglue(waht I used to get the sand on the oil bottle) and tried to use Aquavitro Bond, it failed though so now I'm just kind of letting it sit. You can see what I meant when I said I'd drill holes in the back, I just thought the bottle was too pretty to potentially destroy.
Enjoy.

Very nice

Beth Villmow · Jul 24, 2020

Mr_Knightley said:
When I do mine, I'm going to try and find the weirdest bottles I can, so stuff like exotic rum bottles are not off the table. ;)
I just really want it to look... Old. So I'll try to find some old fashioned coke bottles and stuff like that. I don't want to have much of any clear glass, I feel it would take much longer to look settled, so I'll be looking for colored glass (wine bottles and such) as they may look a bit better overall. Colored would also allow fish to hide within them, which is a big plus for me.
Anybody know of some weird looking bottles I should keep an eye out for? I'd like to formulate a list of what to generally get before I go shopping cluelessly lol.

This may sound odd, I don't know where you live, but around here old barns and rock piles in fields are great places to look for old glass bottles. I've heard of digging in old outhouse holes but sounds gross so haven't done it. Look forward to seeing the finished product!

Mr_Knightley · Jul 24, 2020

Beth Villmow said:
This may sound odd, I don't know where you live, but around here old barns and rock piles in fields are great places to look for old glass bottles. I've heard of digging in old outhouse holes but sounds gross so haven't done it. Look forward to seeing the finished product!

I've actually finished one already! I posted pictures a little ways up in the thread.
I'll have to keep the rock piles in mind for the future, though! Luckily one of my sisters collects bottles and has offered me some cool ones to use!

Beth Villmow · Jul 24, 2020

Malevolent said:
Eh, I dropped a dragon head in mine. I like themes, mine just happens to be dragons.

Where did you find that? It looks awesome!!!

Fezbearer · Jul 24, 2020

Looks like I'm going to move ahead with putting the broken tiki mug into the tank. I was PMing the artist that did them and they high fire the mugs twice during production.

sfin52 · Jul 24, 2020

Fezbearer said:
Looks like I'm going to move ahead with putting the broken tiki mug into the tank. I was PMing the artist that did them and they high fire the mugs twice during production.

I would cure it first. Let it sit in a bucket of sw for a bit.