Okay, well technically it's a plant bowl right now. A 10 gallon plant bowl.
A few months back I came across this huge bowl at a home decor place, and naturally my initial reaction was "how can I use this as an aquarium?" After my first attempt failed, I'm embarrassed to say I let the whole thing just sit for about a month. Driftwood, water, plants and all. Well the piece of wood I used stained the water terribly, all my plants bit the dust, and the water was something I don't really care to describe. But I decided to empty the thing and give it a good scrub a couple days ago, and made a trip to the not so local LFS to see what sort of plants I could throw in. I just finished it about an hour ago, and although I'm no where near happy with it, I thought i'd share to see if anyone had any ideas for it. I don't even know if I plan on actually putting anything in it since it can't be heated, maybe some shrimp if nothing else (although if anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them.) I plan on taking the wood out and replacing it with... ??? , and it needs some shorter plants for sure. Half of the ones in now actually belong to a friend, and I'm just holding onto them until she can get set up, so they were pretty much just thrown wherever. Anyways, here are a couple pictures. Please excuse the quality!
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After:
So, any ideas on what to do with it? What I did with it tonight was more "I need to get these plants out of the bag" than anything! The bowl does make everything look distorted, but thought I'd just mess around with it!
A few months back I came across this huge bowl at a home decor place, and naturally my initial reaction was "how can I use this as an aquarium?" After my first attempt failed, I'm embarrassed to say I let the whole thing just sit for about a month. Driftwood, water, plants and all. Well the piece of wood I used stained the water terribly, all my plants bit the dust, and the water was something I don't really care to describe. But I decided to empty the thing and give it a good scrub a couple days ago, and made a trip to the not so local LFS to see what sort of plants I could throw in. I just finished it about an hour ago, and although I'm no where near happy with it, I thought i'd share to see if anyone had any ideas for it. I don't even know if I plan on actually putting anything in it since it can't be heated, maybe some shrimp if nothing else (although if anyone has suggestions I'd love to hear them.) I plan on taking the wood out and replacing it with... ??? , and it needs some shorter plants for sure. Half of the ones in now actually belong to a friend, and I'm just holding onto them until she can get set up, so they were pretty much just thrown wherever. Anyways, here are a couple pictures. Please excuse the quality!
Before:
After:
So, any ideas on what to do with it? What I did with it tonight was more "I need to get these plants out of the bag" than anything! The bowl does make everything look distorted, but thought I'd just mess around with it!
