Recycling Alcohol Bottles

[todonnell77]

Captain Morgan

 

[Alyxx]

Nice! And captain morgan is a good choice. Kind of hints at pirates! I'm just saving my old plastic 1.75L gin bottles for separating my male betta fry when they grow out a bit.

 

[ddodad]

How do you turn the bottle into a bubbler I love the idea and I have a perfect old rum bottle to use

 

[todonnell77]

I actually just bought a 16 cent bubvler stone at PetsMart, ran in down with line into the bottle and then used a suction cup to position the line on the tank and it all sort of worked.

 

[ddodad]

Wow that's smart and easier then I thought. I figured you'd need to drill bottle.... Basically I'm not very handy and sounds like I could even do it

 

[todonnell77]

I would actually like to do that. I would keep the cap on the bottle so the whole bottle would be full of bubbles circulating

 

[aquandrew]

how did you keep the label on?

 

[todonnell77]

I didnt touch it and it has now become blank..

 

[jwh0818]

Ive used them as caves. You have to brake the bottom off and sand the edges

 

[todonnell77]

Any pictures? Very interested

 

[jwh0818]

Any pictures? Very interested

No unfortunately I dont. It was 2 years ago. Its really hard to break the ends though. I used a steel rod and a towel over it. And a fine sand paper to sand it

 

[aquandrew]

I didnt touch it and it has now become blank..

lol i thought that would happen. my sister has some cool beer bottles with silkscreen labels on them that I'm pretty sure are going to work. I'm going to try drilling the bottom and putting an air stone in it so the tubing wont be showing through the whole bottle

 

[todonnell77]

That'd be sick

 

[Alyxx]

You an get a kit for breaking and sanding bottles at hobby lobby for like $15.

My plastic handles have been working great for jarring betta fry though. Better than soda bottles due to the flat bottom and the hand holds. And since we go through more liquor than soda, I have more of those than soda bottles. Not that we drink an incredible amount of liquor, but we just don't drink much soda at all.

 

[jwh0818]

You an get a kit for breaking and sanding bottles at hobby lobby for like $15.

My plastic handles have been working great for jarring betta fry though. Better than soda bottles due to the flat bottom and the hand holds. And since we go through more liquor than soda, I have more of those than soda bottles. Not that we drink an incredible amount of liquor, but we just don't drink much soda at all.

You must be from Texas? I havent ever seen one of those kits

 

[Alyxx]

You must be from Texas? I havent ever seen one of those kits

Louisiana actually.

 

[jwh0818]

Louisiana actually.

Close enough! Ill look for that kit next time I go

 

[Alyxx]

Close enough! Ill look for that kit next time I go

It's with the glass and mosaic stuff, at least in my local hobby lobby.

 

[jgh]

Awesome!

I remember in one episode of Tanked they incorporated glass soda bottles into the coral inserts. They put fine bubble air stones inside them to make them look like the soda was fizzing. I know people don't really like that show, but I thought it was pretty awesome!

 

[steviebetta]

How To Cut Glass Bottles With String