I am back in China now and started wandering the streets of the town where I am living. I found a restaurant supply store that is selling a large bottle that is normally used to put a variety of animals in, along with some kind of booze, to flavor the booze and preserve the animals (usually turtles). The bottle I saw is 60 liters, about 20" inches across with an 8" diameter mouth. I want to find an interesting aquarium to put in the corner of my living room or in my office, and a round one would do the trick.
I am going to go back and see if they have a larger size, but if not, this one might do. I was thinking of drilling 2 x 1/2" holes in the bottom, one to let water out into a filtering system below (similar to a sump) where the water would be filtered, oxygenated and then pumped back into the tank where a manifold would distribute the water and create some current, if necessary. I would put the lights inside the mouth of the bottle .
Any thoughts? suggestions? concerns? Anyone ever drilled a whole in this type of glass - maybe a better question is how to seal the hole so that it does not leak? Not sure what I would put in this yet, but it would have to be small, less than 3-4" as adults, and not be the kind of fish that needed current. Plants would be an almost certainty. cherry shrimp? cories? dwarf frogs? apple snails? Would I get adequate heating for this if I put the whole tank (or the sump) one of of the pads that is made for lizards?
I am going to go back and see if they have a larger size, but if not, this one might do. I was thinking of drilling 2 x 1/2" holes in the bottom, one to let water out into a filtering system below (similar to a sump) where the water would be filtered, oxygenated and then pumped back into the tank where a manifold would distribute the water and create some current, if necessary. I would put the lights inside the mouth of the bottle .
Any thoughts? suggestions? concerns? Anyone ever drilled a whole in this type of glass - maybe a better question is how to seal the hole so that it does not leak? Not sure what I would put in this yet, but it would have to be small, less than 3-4" as adults, and not be the kind of fish that needed current. Plants would be an almost certainty. cherry shrimp? cories? dwarf frogs? apple snails? Would I get adequate heating for this if I put the whole tank (or the sump) one of of the pads that is made for lizards?
