I liked this one at 5g https://www.jamaligarden.com/vases/...s-vases/cylinders/10-x-10-12-x-12-inch-round-glass-vase-with-raised-bottom.html

And the joirnal https://www.plantedtank.net/forums/...s/22-planted-nano-tanks/585305-12-x-12-x-12-not-cube-1-month-update-w-pics.html

 

Nice!

I have seen a few 12x12 cylinders but have rejected them because of the form factor. I really want some more space to work with if at all possible. There are also some 12x20+ inch cylinders that I rejected for the same reason.

 

She wouldn't go for a stylish half-moon shape?

 

She might if it looked more like a flower vase that happened to have fish, a bow front aquarium is right out. I tried to sell her on a dennerle scaper's tank because of the rounded corners, not interested sadly.

@DaveKS - thats actually the same bowl I linked from amazon. Its sold under a variety of different names and prices. Its also currently what I would buy if I needed to pull the trigger today.
@aquanerd13 - I would totally go for the stairs!! if I had crazy amounts of money... and I really liked scuba gear for aquarium maintenance Unfortunately the other suggestion is out of my price range as well. If you sell something as an aquarium it quadruples in cost I find. But if you sell it for another purpose such as a flower vase its down right reasonable in comparison. Of course clarity is not much an issue in flower vases but /shrug.

Right now I am trying to find a glass blower to see if I can get something custom made in the under 150 dollar price range. No idea how reasonable or unreasonable that is but all the bigger vases are advertised as hand blown anyway, so maybe someone is willing to make me a tank shaped like a squat onion 2 feet across and 12 inches high.

 

How about a 19x16 bowl

https://www.eventswholesale.com/19-x-16-clear-round-bubble-bowl-vase/

Years ago I found a huge 14” diameter by 14” tall glass cylinder vase at a discount store called Gordmans here. Sold it many years ago though.

 

A tank that doesn't look like a tank? How odd. How about this?:wink2:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sou...aquarium-gleneagles.html&psig=AOvVaw3kQ79MwksvpSw0jcmYC4tx&ust=1565673091347035
Or this lol.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&sou...re.com/ultraquariums.htm&psig=AOvVaw3kQ79MwksvpSw0jcmYC4tx&ust=1565673091347035

Okay some serious ideas.
https://www.amazon.com/Acrylic-Cylinder-Aquarium-Stainless-20LX20WX69/dp/B016COI6YE

Bump: Ooops forgot to check the price on that one.

 

I'd look for wabi-kusa containers. Do!Aqua used to make one called plant glass oval. Not sure if you can still buy them online. Home stores often carry unusually sized glass vases as well.

 

This is very interesting! I had not heard of wabi-kusa before so this is a whole avenue of search I haven't followed up on. I am basically trying to replicate one of those indoor ponds popular in japan with ricefish. They have a name that I can never remember. But they are usually made of ceramics and thus obviously opaque. I want to do the same but with something I can see the fish with and make it a walstad tank to boot.
@ontheedge I took a look at the trashcan you linked but its not particularly big. The other options I could find on their website are either similarly too small or are not going to pass the wife's critical eye. (ie it can't look like a storage bin for papers etc)
@robertintx I took a look at this site as well but sadly the biggest glass vase they have is the 12x12 cylinder. Thats 5 gallons but the form factor is not very good for fitting in lots of plants and still having room for fish etc.

A glass blower has been in touch with me who is willing and able to make a 20" long, 12" wide, 14" high oval vase. Its going to set me back 250 dollars but I might be able to swing it, being custom and all.

 

Try The Container Store:
https://www.containerstore.com/s/tr...m/s/trash-and-recycling/cleara-acrylic-trash-can-by-umbra/1d?productId=11004645

 

Glassvasesdepot.com has some interesting sizes.

 

Not quite as large, but some of these look cool.

Otherwise this is the only other thing I could find. Most glass pieces are too small.

 

Thank you for looking but the first are two small and the second looks too much like a "fish tank" and wouldn't really work well for a walstad with the built in filtration. I could just not use it but I would feel silly setting up a walstad in a tank with built in filtration and simply ignoring the filter.

I agree that glass vessels tend to be too small. I first thought this would be super easy because I knew of the WGV bubble vase already having seen it in a random search months ago. What I didn't count on was that being the only real option if you want something more then 5 gallons.
@shattersea yea I am kind of excited for a custom hand blown vessel of this size. I think "hand" blown might be a bit of a misnomer though because the artist I am in touch with mentioned a "machine" being involved but /shrug it still sounds pretty spiffy.

 

Sweet, a 16” x 19” tall cylinder vase, expensive though for what it is.

https://www.amazon.com/My-Swanky-Ho...L4V47X7/ref=sr_1_55?keywords=Cylinder+vase+16”&qid=1565681191&s=gateway&sr=8-55

The one I found years ago at Gordman’s 1/2 price store was about 14”diameter but it was only about $50. Think I figured it out as around 7gal once gravel/decor subtracted.

Edit: here’s a 16x23
https://www.amazon.com/Howard-Ellio...8SDTHJC/ref=sr_1_56?keywords=Cylinder+vase+16”&qid=1565682039&s=gateway&sr=8-56

 

Way to come through at the end! Wow I don't know how you found that 16"x19" vase. I typed every search combination I thought possible into amazon plus google and couldn't come up with it. That vase will hold round 15-16 gallons depending on how much I fill it up. Its practically perfect. The only thing that could make it better would be if it were oblong to use more of that 19" horizontally instead of vertically, but sometimes you take what you can get.

I was getting all excited for a custom vessel but this is 100 dollars cheaper... will probably go this route though will need to run it past the wife to get her final feelings on it since she has had a lot of influence in this process.

 

Anyway, thanks for starting this thread and getting my mind going. I just ordered me a 10x16 cylinder vase to make into a mini tank for work desk, set just to right of my dual monitors, probably. Was $38 shipped. Got a couple of the azoo mignon filter setting on shelf downstairs I got when they were $3.50

Will have to think more in a vertical state of mind rather than normal landscape mode as far as decor/plants go. Thinking branch w/moss and tall strands of ambulia and few crypts in bottom.

 

I tried searching commercial lobby vases and floor vases to find ones big enough. Unfortunately most of the big stuff was opaque ceramic.

 

Well DaveKS, while your help was surely appreciated, but the wife put an end to the 16" glass cylinder. I sold her on this tank with the idea that it would be artistically beautiful so she wants the tank itself to be more aesthetically interesting. With that in mind I went ahead and pulled the trigger on the custom glass vessel. I contacted the artist and told him I am interested in proceeding. I will update this thread with some progress but when the vessel comes I will likely just start a journal.

 

The smaller one seems to shallow. The cylinders look nice and are plenty deep enough. Put it some place safe. I would think a lot about lighting.

 

Lighting will be a desk lamp equipped with something like one of these.

Should get me 20-35 ppfd at substrate depending on how tall the vessel ends up being and how far away I need to move the light. Should be good for low light plants and maybe some medium ones. Walstad calls for 12-15 hours a day lighting cycles in her latest book edition with a 2-4 hour break in the middle. So 20 par might be fine for otherwise medium light plants maybe?