Weird Question ... Can I Put Glass in My Aquarium?

You seen my question and your like what? WHY?

I'm Asking this weird question because I'm currently thinking of an aquascape, the tank will be a shrimp only tank most likely cherry shrimp. In this aquascape I'm thinking more about levels since shrimp are so small I can house quite a few in a 10 gallon, my crazy idea is using an all glass (never soaped or anything) short martinI glass . It would be as tall as the centre of my tank with about 3-4inch diameter which v's down to the skinny holding part and the base would be in my Aqua soil. My idea is to create a lifted island in the centre of the tank I will fill the martinI glass with Aqua soil and most likely plant some baby tear maybe a few stems of S Repens. Then under the martinI glass I will have a nice carpet of Monte Carlo all through out the tank maybe some hair grass towards the back wall, and some anubias or micro sword around the holding part of the glass since that part will be shaded?!

Is this possible, Can I use Glass in my aquarium

FishLoverJess

 

Haha! Not a weird question, and it's safe.

 

I thought I would write this and people would be like **** is wrong with you! I'm actually so excited to find this out! IV been looking online and couldn't find anything.

to do this idea would any plants be able to grow under the Shade of the under glass? I mean other then anubias ?

 

Pretty much any plant you could grow in your tank normally as long as it isn't a colored glass, even it probably wouldn't be much a reduction in light.

The only glass you wouldn't be able to put in a tank is lead glass, if for some reason you have this in 2016.

 

Lead glass I have no idea what that is, but I was planning to visit the dollar store or Walmart to buy a glass tomorrow,

the tank has good lighting (Finnex planted plus) so the shade of the glass won't effect the plants underneath?

 

That sounds cool!

The shade of the glass filled with soil will prevent medium or high light plants from growing there, I would think.

 

That's what I'm thinking too. I'm trying to figure how I'm going to do this. I have a Finnex planted plus light fixture on the ten gallon it's very strong and grows whatever I want in the ten. I'm pretty confident I can get anubias to grow at the darkest part but I'm wondering what else I could grow there to cover the actual holding part of the glass. I want a floating land island kinda look if that makes sense.

 

If it's meant for drinking/eating out of and you're buying it new, it's not lead glass, so no need to worry. A martinI glass isn't all that big, so I doubt the shade will cause much trouble. I have a tiger lotus in my 10 gallon that has gloating leaves that make more shade than that would, and the hair grass and micro sword in that tank is doing great.

 

I've seen aquascapes in bare-bottom tanks where they used glass containers to hold plants. I did see one mention of a glass not being able to take the pressure and breaking, but it doesn't seem to be a common thing.

 

If it's meant for drinking/eating out of and you're buying it new, it's not lead glass, so no need to worry. A martinI glass isn't all that big, so I doubt the shade will cause much trouble. I have a tiger lotus in my 10 gallon that has gloating leaves that make more shade than that would, and the hair grass and micro sword in that tank is doing great.

the martinI glass I want isn't the standard ones you would get at a bar I seen some bigger one at Walmart about 4-5inches wide but there are different sizes, in the ten gallon which is 20x11 that should cover around 1/3 of the tank specially cause it's in the centre. I'm thinking it would stop growth and only lower light plants should be placed there but what?

I've seen aquascapes in bare-bottom tanks where they used glass containers to hold plants. I did see one mention of a glass not being able to take the pressure and breaking, but it doesn't seem to be a common thing.

I live in a building would that cause the glass to break since I'm on the 10 floor :0

There will be a 3-5inch gap from my substrate to where the martinI cup starts the tank isn't going to be bare bottom I will have Aqua soil down there and I want to have a carpet of Monte Carlo. But I want a plant to go around the centre of the martinI glass holder part which will be completely shaded cause the glass will also have Aqua soil in it so I can plant inside the glass. I hope I'm making sense

 

In that case, you could put some anubias petite under there. Anubias will grow in pretty much any lighting that isn't pitch darkness. Some crypts might do well too, depending how dark it actually ends up being under there.

 

Yeah I think anubias might be the best way to go