"Aquariumizing" A large Ball mason jar into a lamp
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"Aquariumizing" A large Ball mason jar into a lamp
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Looking for ideas
I will probably "cannibalize" the parts from a goodwill lamp, and then buy a 6500K bulb and a nice looking lampshade to start out with...
Looking for ideas
I will probably "cannibalize" the parts from a goodwill lamp, and then buy a 6500K bulb and a nice looking lampshade to start out with...
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Bwaaaahahahaha,... AQUARIUMIZE ALL THINGS!!!
Shrimp! Shrimp! Shrimp! SHRIIIIIIIIIIMP!!!!
Shrimp! Shrimp! Shrimp! SHRIIIIIIIIIIMP!!!!
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PokeSephiroth wrote:Bwaaaahahahaha,... AQUARIUMIZE ALL THINGS!!!
Shrimp! Shrimp! Shrimp! SHRIIIIIIIIIIMP!!!!
AQUARIUMIZE ALL THINGS!!! LoL poke!
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earthfish, hahaha... like my other hobby, I like to SPIN ALL THE THINGS!!
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Which plants hmmmm????
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I shall add shrimp once I get some plants going
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Low light plants. Java moss, java fern, anach---y'know, that stuff.
mmm... maybe some water lettuce, although those aren't considered low light plants, but you never know
Basically, any of these plants listed on this site:
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mmm... maybe some water lettuce, although those aren't considered low light plants, but you never know
Basically, any of these plants listed on this site:
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I aaaaaam waiting for that dwarf saggataria in the mail...hmmm...
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Why low light plants?? It's going to have a 6500K bulb right above the water... your biggest concern is going to be algae with that much light.
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What would you suggest for these "small" types of setups plant-wise?
What would you suggest for these "small" types of setups plant-wise?
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Well, anything that stays small - micro swords (brazilian and otherwise), marsilea minuta, dwarf hair grass, helanthium tenellum (especially since the jar is decently tall), etc. All of these would require a decent nutritive substrate - dirt of some kind like aquasoil, mineralized soil, etc. Capping it with sand should help minimize algae. You wouldn't have to fertilize a setup like this - at least not the water column and not for a long time. An inch of dirt on the bottom, 1.5" max, should do the job.
You could try stem plants, but you'd have to add ferts to the water column regularly and you'd have to trim them.
You could try stem plants, but you'd have to add ferts to the water column regularly and you'd have to trim them.
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One thing that might be problematic in the future, is trimming the plants. Imagine trying to stick your hand in a really tall cylinder hahahaha... I would go with slow growing plants like.. uh.... maybe anubias? dwarf hairgrass! (dunno if that's slow growing though, but as long as it stays short..hehe)
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Trimming in a jar isn't tough with the right tools - long tweezers and scissors.
Something like this:
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You'll need long tweezers to plant it regardless.
Something like this:
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You'll need long tweezers to plant it regardless.
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Or have a huge Marimo Ball in there!! then have an airstone, so that the marimo ball tumbles around... CUTE!!!!
Heck, if you can find smaller marimo balls, it could be like a little "planted lava lamp" OMG I WANT TO DO THIS NOW!!!
Heck, if you can find smaller marimo balls, it could be like a little "planted lava lamp" OMG I WANT TO DO THIS NOW!!!
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I would like to do a micro planted tank and house those little Tiger shrimp. A micro DYI project would be awesome...
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And above all - keep a toothbrush handy for algae. It's nearly impossible to keep a tiny container balanced as far as plants and nutrients grow so you'll be regularly scrubbing algae from the glass.
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I want something that gets somewhat tall so that it "fills up" the jar. I don't think that I want to mess around with dirt, so i will probably just use some kind of decent substrate like fluorite.
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If you go with fluorite you'll have to fertilize to produce decent growth - either root tabs or liquids.
Helanthium Tenellum (pygmy chain sword) can grow up to 5 or 6 inches high. Sagittaria Subulata will grow up to 16", less and slower w/o a nutritive substrate. Most vals get too long... you might try echinodorus angustifolia 'vesuvius' - these get up to 10" long.
If you're not scared of increased maintenance then filling up the jar with stem plants wouldn't be too hard. Dose it appropriately with flourish comprehensive and under good light they'll grow quite quickly. I'm not crazy about stem plants so I can't really recommend many. I've kept ludwigia repens narrow-leaf long term and I've kept elodea, cabomba, a rotala species, star grass, and pearl grass in the past. They all look nice at first, but then they get stringy after a while and you have to yank them, trim, and re-plant. I'm lazy so this isn't as appealing.
Crypts might work, but it'll take forever for them to fill the jar.
Helanthium Tenellum (pygmy chain sword) can grow up to 5 or 6 inches high. Sagittaria Subulata will grow up to 16", less and slower w/o a nutritive substrate. Most vals get too long... you might try echinodorus angustifolia 'vesuvius' - these get up to 10" long.
If you're not scared of increased maintenance then filling up the jar with stem plants wouldn't be too hard. Dose it appropriately with flourish comprehensive and under good light they'll grow quite quickly. I'm not crazy about stem plants so I can't really recommend many. I've kept ludwigia repens narrow-leaf long term and I've kept elodea, cabomba, a rotala species, star grass, and pearl grass in the past. They all look nice at first, but then they get stringy after a while and you have to yank them, trim, and re-plant. I'm lazy so this isn't as appealing.
Crypts might work, but it'll take forever for them to fill the jar.
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You might just go with a java or christmas moss-covered rock or piece of drift wood. This should be easy enough to put together and as long as you give it some flourish comp. every once and a while and keep it trimmed it should do well.
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I swear, if I didn't see "Flourish Comp" and read only "Flourish" I would've been like (no matt's trolling u now) XD
Speaking of which, does he know where or how he's going to house his lighting fixture on that jar? XD
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Speaking of which, does he know where or how he's going to house his lighting fixture on that jar? XD
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For reference:
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I've used 6 Seachem Flourish line aquarium plant fertilizer products over the years - Comprehensive, Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, and Excel.
I'm not sure what you mean by trolling...
Here's a container I put together quite a while ago. It has marsilea minuta growing in amazonia 2 with a 6" shoplight over the top with a 9W 6500K CFL. I cleaned it out recently... it was quite awful thanks to many months of neglect. The container isn't particularly attractive, but I tend to go for function over form. It's grown me a lot of marsilea minuta and that's what matters.
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I've used 6 Seachem Flourish line aquarium plant fertilizer products over the years - Comprehensive, Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, and Excel.
I'm not sure what you mean by trolling...
Here's a container I put together quite a while ago. It has marsilea minuta growing in amazonia 2 with a 6" shoplight over the top with a 9W 6500K CFL. I cleaned it out recently... it was quite awful thanks to many months of neglect. The container isn't particularly attractive, but I tend to go for function over form. It's grown me a lot of marsilea minuta and that's what matters.
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Lowes has these "lamp kit" type things that give you pretty much everything you need to make something into a lamp. The jar i have has a lid that I will attach the light fixture to. I just got a new 55 gallon, so this project has been put on the backburner haha
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Saw this, it looked awesome when u look at it closely.pbmax wrote:For reference:
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I've used 6 Seachem Flourish line aquarium plant fertilizer products over the years - Comprehensive, Nitrogen, Potassium, Phosphorus, Iron, and Excel.
I'm not sure what you mean by trolling...
Here's a container I put together quite a while ago. It has marsilea minuta growing in amazonia 2 with a 6" shoplight over the top with a 9W 6500K CFL. I cleaned it out recently... it was quite awful thanks to many months of neglect. The container isn't particularly attractive, but I tend to go for function over form. It's grown me a lot of marsilea minuta and that's what matters.
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And by trolling" Idk anymore, I was having a brainfart when I said that sooo xD
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I dont think you guys realize how huge this jar is. Its one of those "decorative" type ones.So I dont think that trimming would be a problem. I just want it to be thick and tall in the center, but enough room around for shrimps
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My mind is still in the gutter. I CANNOT UNSEE IT!!! Hahahahahaha
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jrmakawoody wrote:Lowes has these "lamp kit" type things that give you pretty much everything you need to make something into a lamp. The jar i have has a lid that I will attach the light fixture to. I just got a new 55 gallon, so this project has been put on the backburner haha
A transparent lid, I hope? If it's one of those jars with the punch out in the middle you could always cut a piece of acrylic (or even glass) to stick under the lid.
jrmakawoody wrote:I dont think you guys realize how huge this jar is. Its one of those "decorative" type ones.So I dont think that trimming would be a problem. I just want it to be thick and tall in the center, but enough room around for shrimps
Yup, it's about the same size my vase, only a smaller diameter. I wouldn't want to try trimming in that without long tweezers and scissors, but to each their own.
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PokeSephiroth wrote:My mind is still in the gutter. I CANNOT UNSEE IT!!! Hahahahahaha
that image will be engrained in your brain for as long as you live!
The lid is not transparent, I will most likely cut out the center and replace it with a "window"
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pbmax wrote:Yup, it's about the same size my vase, only a smaller diameter. I wouldn't want to try trimming in that without long tweezers and scissors, but to each their own.
I like to live on the edge
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If you look closely at my vase photo you can see how abysmally awful I am at cutting plexiglass or lexan or whatever that was into a round shape. Glass would likely be much easier with a round cutter.
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jrmakawoody wrote:
I like to live on the edge
My long scissors and tweezers have come in really handy for all kinds of trimming / planting... no rust yet either. Just sayin'
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I need to get some anyways, so if i have them, I will use them haha.
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this is what I had in mind:
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If one was to modify a chunk of wood for this Ball jar couldn't they attach it to the lid? IDK, just something that popped in my head. This way you wouldn't have to shift everything around to clean the glass, you would just pull anything blocking out...
My imagination is getting the better of me. I can see myself dremeling a chunk of bog wood to nicely fit into the jar. At some point the wood would be thick enough to hollow out and except a modified sponge filter about 3" in diameter. Then one could demel slits into the side allowing water flow through the wood , sponge- with an air hose attached and walla- micro sponge filter for a micro tank. Is something like this doable, or is it even needed?
My imagination is getting the better of me. I can see myself dremeling a chunk of bog wood to nicely fit into the jar. At some point the wood would be thick enough to hollow out and except a modified sponge filter about 3" in diameter. Then one could demel slits into the side allowing water flow through the wood , sponge- with an air hose attached and walla- micro sponge filter for a micro tank. Is something like this doable, or is it even needed?
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one could do such things if one didnt leave his dremel at his parents house in indiana
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Yikes - too much work. Where would you hide the air pump? What would you say when people ask why the lamp is buzzing?
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I suppose you could hide the air pump up in the lampshade...you could just tell them that its the "old style" incandescent light bulb that has a slight hum haha
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Would you just not filter the system?
It does sound like a lot of work but this is stuff I do from time to time. Think if weird stuff and then try it..
It does sound like a lot of work but this is stuff I do from time to time. Think if weird stuff and then try it..
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Well, if it's only going to house shrimp, I don't see the need for a filter... >_>;; or......?
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Shrimp live fine without a filter as long as your container isn't teeming with them. Photosynthesizing plants help, of course.
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Oh....
I sometimes play with the idea of getting into the shrimp hobby. I really like little tiger shrimp. I scared to pay $15-20 per, then make a mistake. If I knew I could put something like this together and successfully house little shrimp I think I would...
How would you properly care for such a small ecosystem without a filter?
I sometimes play with the idea of getting into the shrimp hobby. I really like little tiger shrimp. I scared to pay $15-20 per, then make a mistake. If I knew I could put something like this together and successfully house little shrimp I think I would...
How would you properly care for such a small ecosystem without a filter?
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pbmax wrote:Shrimp live fine without a filter as long as your container isn't teeming with them. Photosynthesizing plants help, of course.
Oh....?
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Regular water changes, keep the glass clean with a tooth brush, minimal feeding. Shrimp live off of biofilm so constant feeding isn't necessary.
My unheated, unfiltered walstad 2.5g goes a month or more between changes and it has RCS breeding in it.
My unheated, unfiltered walstad 2.5g goes a month or more between changes and it has RCS breeding in it.
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pbmax wrote:Regular water changes, keep the glass clean with a tooth brush, minimal feeding. Shrimp live off of biofilm so constant feeding isn't necessary.
My unheated, unfiltered walstad 2.5g goes a month or more between changes and it has RCS breeding in it.
Oh...
Think I'll do some more reading on the Walstad method. Perhaps give it a shot...
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Doesn't need to be a walstad. I kept shrimp for many months in a tiny glass container much smaller than my 2.5g (see avatar photo taken of said container) with tahitian moon sand and dwarf hair grass (and a rock). In the end I got tired of cleaning the algae So I pulled the shrimp out and mothballed it.
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PokeSephiroth wrote:earthfish, hahaha... like my other hobby, I like to SPIN ALL THE THINGS!!
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Do you really spin fire or are you a jokester?
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earthfish: I do indeed spin fire. Check my youtube out for proofsies.
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Other than spinning fire, I spin LED lights too (more for practice, when I'm NOT spinning fire).
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Other than spinning fire, I spin LED lights too (more for practice, when I'm NOT spinning fire).
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A moneywort would look awesome in that jar.
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