[icemanfred]

I have a 10 gallon fish tank.

any cool ideas what to do with it?
any pics of your fish tank based props?

 

[slcjeeper]

Put a head or some floating brains in it. Run some EL lighting wire to create a life support system. Or, put an arm bone, add some flesh to it and then attach Piranha fish and run air out where they are feeding.

 

[MonsterGuts]

I have some of these fish skeletons from Target and was thinking of doing this with them.

I believe punkineater here on HF did this.

Here are some other ideas

And HF member Hilda did this

- Kat

 

[Dyne]

It was nothing really fancy but several years ago, I made a sculpey brain for a party and put it in my old tank, along with a doll eye (would've used two, but I'd misplaced the other one). Added some highlighter dye to the water and put a blacklight in the fixture.

The brain had two screws in the "temples", to which copper wire was attached (there were also short bits in the end of the medulla oblongata). The wire attached to a thin wooden bar placed under the light fixture, suspending the brain midway in the tank. Air trapped in the doll eye and the natural rigidity of the tubing made the eye tend to float. A long air stone was placed in the bottom to provide "oxygen" (and the circulating water from that and the filter in back made the eye tend to bob around randomly a bit)

Nowadays I'd do something more elaborate, possibly using 3d printed parts (i.e. trim on the tank, mad scientist widgets, etc.) I still have the brain and eyes, but I'd have to get a new tank (or use one of those giant cheese puff containers like some people do)

 

[Family Haunter]

Here are some pictures of ideas from Pinterest.

 

[Cloe]

Out of curiosity do you have fish in it or just looking for ideas to use it?

 

[Trex]

We made this in 2014, picture is not that great...

 

[icemanfred]

thanks for all the great ideas and pics.
No fish in the tank. Thats how i acquired this one. my son moved up to a twenty gallon. so I have this ten gallon tank waiting to be transformed.

 

[icemanfred]

just got a 3 d printer so printing details for it is an option thanks for reminding me.