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This post use to be about How you could use an empty bottle for effective use in a fish environment, however, i've decided to make this post about Ideas for fish keeping as a whole.
Please feel free to post freely. These are my thoughts.


What are the uses of an empty bottle in an aquarium?

What ive come up with.

1:Could stick babies in there and float it, open, vertically, at the top with plants in it for safety.
2:Could stick babies in there and float it, Closed with holes just big enough for babies to go threw, horizontally, with plants for safety and comfort.
3:Could stick babies in there and float it open, horizontally, possible plants
4:Could float it in there with plants and food, so smaller fish (that can fit threw the hole, like my platies) can swim in there for fun and shelter for the women from the men
5:Could float it in there with just food so the fish can be trained to eat in that bottle, holes at the top for food droppings, can summon you whenever they are in the bottle because they are telling you they are hungry, plus the food waste is controllable (brilliant)

6:could sink it for shelter
7:could sink it for babies to swim in,
8:could sink for a place for them to eat thats not floating.

9:Could be used to separate aggressive fish and give them timeout :D
10:Could be used to scoop water
11:Could be used as a filter O__O !?!?
12:Could be used as an air bubbulationer <-- Hahaha!! omg wth?
13:Could be used to make artificial rain
14:Could be made into a lamp <--- again wth?


what are your ideas?

Plus what else could you use to make a Ghetto(?) Cheap(?) Aquarium or aquarium setup or creative uses for enhancing fish life.


Super Creative example 15: You could get a lot of bottles and tubing and tape and combine them into a fish structure inside the aquarium, so its not just an empty aquarium its a complex living facility. you could have them separate territory with only certain areas for babies (smaller holes, at least till they get bigger) etc with a fish food place thats removable so you can take it out when they are done eating, holes at the top to insert food, (trained to eat there) and a place with heavier flow for fish exercise, Hole at top of tubing where filter could partially flow into creating a current. If they poop inside i have no idea how i would fix that other than a weekly flush out. Imagine the wonder. It of course would have big enough space for swimming freely and privacy and you could even attach the structure (for more space) that goes out of the aquarium entirely! *Gasp* like threw the top.

Would that even be possible? It would help with territory problems and babies could grow and be happy if you could find a way to build it right, and it could create fishy comfort and you could even get tinted tubing and stuff so you only see the bottles and they can have privacy from the outside, and the food would be controlled, and you could even have GREEN or tinted water for natural water conditions for the fish, and floating plants inside, etc. Couldnt you do all that with mostly tape, bottles, and tubing, given you have an aquarium, filter, thermo, etc. to keep it in?


Thats something creative man! ^^^^^
 
I take it you drink lots of fizzy drinks and have too much time on your hands?

All options would/could work I suppose. Its hard to imagine some of them though without seeing them in action.
 
@Micko: Yes I do drink fizzy drinks and have too much time on my hands, my golly gosh sir are you a psychic? hahaha. Really though, I do tend to naturally be an INTP (intelligent Intuitive Thinking perceiving) type personality, Not sure, but i believe it helps me be the idea maker of this world. Shear boredom +fizzy drinks or not, I believe I would still be this way hahaha. Thanks for the post, like the support.

@BigbruiserAl: You sir, are amazingly astonishing. People like you make me so proud to be who I am. It also seems it would probably not cost much. which is FANTASTIC. I like the Home made, do it yourself, feel of things, makes me feel like im putting personal touches to this world of buy and sell ya no? GREAT INVENTION, I'll definitely make this when i have the time. It would be cool if more people could see this.
 
I've made bubble-up filters for fry tanks out of them in the past.
 
@fluttermoth: That's great lol. (I sound like that tiger from the commercials "Its more than good, its GREEAAT.") hahaha wow im weird. Was it cheap? did it do a better job than if you had used another filter? What made it your preferred choice?
 
@BigbruiserAl: You sir, are amazingly astonishing. People like you make me so proud to be who I am. It also seems it would probably not cost much. which is FANTASTIC. I like the Home made, do it yourself, feel of things, makes me feel like im putting personal touches to this world of buy and sell ya no? GREAT INVENTION, I'll definitely make this when i have the time. It would be cool if more people could see this.


Awww you made me blush :blush:

Mine took about 40 min to do right, here is the media you need http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/K1-fluidbed-chamber-bio-filter-media-1-litre-/260830741589?pt=UK_Pet_Supplies_Fish&hash=item3cbab94455
as you can see it cheap enough. Dont bother buying more thats more then enough for a 2ltr fizzy pop bottle.
 
@fluttermoth: That's great lol. (I sound like that tiger from the commercials "Its more than good, its GREEAAT.") hahaha wow im weird. Was it cheap? did it do a better job than if you had used another filter? What made it your preferred choice?
It is cheap; all you need is a UG uplift tube.

You cut the neck end off the bottle, to the height of your tank minus an inch or so, put your uplift tube in (you need the bottom bit with the gaps in for it to work), fill the bottle with media from your other filters (ceramic rings work great in these) and top with a bit of fine gravel or floss.

Perfect for fry tanks as there's no chance of them being sucked in, and you can have a bare bottom tank for easy cleaning.

Plus, after a while you get a good growth of mico-organisms for the fry to feed on growing on the sufaces. And you don't need to worry about it running dry and burning out any motors when you doing all the water changes you have to do with fry.
 
Better late than never I've got 1L Kaldnes K1 Media through the post and I have an empty 35l tank that's not currently being used for anything.

I've had a look around the house and found out a few spares. I have a spare heater, air pump+stone+sponge filter (currently maturing in my 125l tank), sand, plants.... so I fancy putting all to good use and setting up a Shrimp tank.

Does anyone know what size pop bottle would be suitable and how much of the media should I put in.


Thanks
 
1 ltr bottle will be plenty, only fill 1/4 of the vessel untill the k1 is mature then you can add a few handfulls. If you add too much at once it all sticks to the sides or top of the bottle.
 
i'll stick with my electric filters that dont make any noise, air pumps do my head in :D
 

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