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I found this amazing old 5 gal Pyrex bottle on the street in NYC and decided to wait until I moved to Australia to make an aquarium out of it. Well I'm here now and I unpacked the bottle and it survived the trip (miraculously). Today I started planning and this is what I have so far.
This will be a no-tech tank (no lighting, filtration, or water changes (just top ups). I normally make planted tanks but given the narrowness of the neck of the bottle a planted tank might be more hassle than it's worth. Instead I'm thinking of a single large emergent plant and a blackwater setup with leaf litter, sticks, and a dark substrate.
I have a ton of interesting leaves from trees on my property so I'll be using those as leaf litter and I'll be collecting submerged sticks from a local stream.
I like to add as much diversity to my setups as possible and I found an Australian live food supplier who has an "Ultimate Freshwater Mix: containing 4 types of copepods, rotifers, daphnia, 3 types amphipods, Aussie seed shrimp and our freshwater MicroMagic 4 species of phytoplankton".
I'm thinking 4 ricefish (Daisy's Blue Ricefish (Oryzias woworae) 3 males and 1 female, a few Ammanos, 2 Otocinclus, and snails.
For the emmersed plant I want a big Monstera deliciosa.
The bottle will sit in the corner of our living room. I already got my wife's approval and my 6 year old daughter is keen to help.
The sense of scale of this bottle is hard to imagine. It's 20" high.
This is a comp of what I'm thinking.
I expected to have to use long tweezers to place hardscape but I'm in luck.
This will be a no-tech tank (no lighting, filtration, or water changes (just top ups). I normally make planted tanks but given the narrowness of the neck of the bottle a planted tank might be more hassle than it's worth. Instead I'm thinking of a single large emergent plant and a blackwater setup with leaf litter, sticks, and a dark substrate.
I have a ton of interesting leaves from trees on my property so I'll be using those as leaf litter and I'll be collecting submerged sticks from a local stream.
I like to add as much diversity to my setups as possible and I found an Australian live food supplier who has an "Ultimate Freshwater Mix: containing 4 types of copepods, rotifers, daphnia, 3 types amphipods, Aussie seed shrimp and our freshwater MicroMagic 4 species of phytoplankton".
I'm thinking 4 ricefish (Daisy's Blue Ricefish (Oryzias woworae) 3 males and 1 female, a few Ammanos, 2 Otocinclus, and snails.
For the emmersed plant I want a big Monstera deliciosa.
The bottle will sit in the corner of our living room. I already got my wife's approval and my 6 year old daughter is keen to help.

The sense of scale of this bottle is hard to imagine. It's 20" high.

This is a comp of what I'm thinking.

I expected to have to use long tweezers to place hardscape but I'm in luck.