Has anyone turned a glass carboy into a fish tank? - Page 3

**the_bird** · 10-02-2009, 06:45 PM

Huh, so how'd they cut the hole in the carboy without the whole thing shattering?

HighPlainsDrifter · 10-02-2009, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by the_bird

Huh, so how'd they cut the hole in the carboy without the whole thing shattering?

Color me puzzled as well.

**dataz722** · 10-02-2009, 07:06 PM

Cutting glass isn't too bad as long as you have the right tools and the glass isn't tempered.

uglygoat · 10-02-2009, 07:37 PM

i was thinking cut the carboy along the top, where it starts to curve up. you'd then want to shroud the cuts, like a glass patio table. you could hinge it, so you can get in and out of it to clean and scoop up dead fishies. course, i don't know what taking the top off the carboy will do to its ability to hold water.

**GilaMinumBeer** · 10-02-2009, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by uglygoat

i was thinking cut the carboy along the top, where it starts to curve up. you'd then want to shroud the cuts, like a glass patio table. you could hinge it, so you can get in and out of it to clean and scoop up dead fishies. course, i don't know what taking the top off the carboy will do to its ability to hold water.

Looks like the plastic one in Brew-Happy's post holds up well.

I'd be more fearful that in a glass one with the top cut off, the slightest tap would send the thing to tatters. Leaving poor little timmy bloodied, confused, and terrified of fish for the remainder of his life.

**cercueil** · 10-02-2009, 07:55 PM

You guys gave me an idea. I'm going to empty my 180 gallon fish tank. Setup a lambic in there and then get that guy from Sierra Nevada to come to my house with the big thing that looks like a pizza peel and move my krausen around!

babalu87 · 10-05-2009, 07:28 PM

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Well, when those little buggers inevitable shuffle off this mortal coil, how you gonna get them out?

That plastic bag trick posted here somewhere

**MultumInParvo** · 10-05-2009, 07:39 PM

Like a few other people said I was sort of thinking of doing the opposite. My parents have a spare fish tank, and open fermenting sounds pretty cool. Plus, being able to watch the whole thing certainly adds to the 'neat' factor.

I know with fish bowls you're not supposed to fill up pass the widest point, probably wouldn't want to eliminate headspace or those little fish would run out of o2.

Dubcut · 10-05-2009, 09:17 PM

Nice to see this thread go to work while I was gone camping. Brewing Clamper, I was thinking about doing something like that, sideways, with a mixed terrariam/aqurium dealio (i think it's called a vivarium). The number one fantasy now is filling a 12 gallon glass carboy with water, sticking a plant on top, introducing some pond organisms to do their thing, add some tiny fish, some snails to clean the glass, and see just how self sustainable the enviroment could be.