live bottle

[Nocturnal]

I think I'm going to give this a shot. I have a bunch of cool looking empty bourbon bottles (ummm, from my other hobby).

 

My only slight concern is that if a crab or whatever get's inside the bottle it may not be able to get out. Maybe a little silicone dribbled inside with some sand would fix that. Heck, I bet you could take some coraline encrusted bottles to a craft show and sell them for a nice little profit.

[DannaM]

What an awesome idea...no more searching for that perfect shaped piece of LR

[ipodnano]

Very cool stuff.

[farkwar]

Is it just me, or do these just look like a frag stuck to a bottle.

 

I think they would look much cooler if he maricultured them. Just take a boatload out off the coast a ways, drop them off come back in a couple years to harvest them.

 

Maybe its just me being negative.

[Paul.b]

How old does this bottle look? It is only a couple of years old, I built it to look like that. I like to sandpaper the bottle to give it some age as bottles under the sea are never clear after being chewed up by the sand. Then I put it in a bag and hit it with a hammar to break it. Then I glue most of it back together and after it dries, round off the cut edges with a dremmel. Then I smear some cement on it and blob some on also. Thats it.

There are about 10 of these in my tank, some I collected, the rest I built.

 

[Paul.b]

This one was also built. That is an oyster shell cemented on. After a couple of years in my reef, I can't even find it in there,

 

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[Ivery]

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[Lowkeycoral]

Very cool. Esp for a goby home