Nano planted jug

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Several months ago, some of our family cleaned out my grandfather's lab (he was a pharmacist)-some parts of which hadn't been touched since he died in 1980-and I brought home several antique glass containers (that's what fishkeeping has done to me, I see a glass container and immediately start contemplating stock) among other things. I have 2 5 gallon distilled water jugs, but they were used for something other than distilled water, so they need a good cleaning. I also have lots of smaller containers.

The plan is to start off with a one gallon jug with a handful of lowlight plants so that I might be able to get away with them surviving off of ambient light. Obviously there will be no fish in this setup, but a few snails and maybe shrimp. If I'm successful with this one and can get one of the 5 gallons clean, I'd like to try one of those as well. So what do you guys think? Will it work?
 
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Several months ago, some of our family cleaned out my grandfather's lab (he was a pharmacist)-some parts of which hadn't been touched since he died in 1980-and I brought home several antique glass containers (that's what fishkeeping has done to me, I see a glass container and immediately start contemplating stock) among other things. I have 2 5 gallon distilled water jugs, but they were used for something other than distilled water, so they need a good cleaning. I also have lots of smaller containers.

The plan is to start off with a one gallon jug with a handful of lowlight plants so that I might be able to get away with them surviving off of ambient light. Obviously there will be no fish in this setup, but a few snails and maybe shrimp. If I'm successful with this one and can get one of the 5 gallons clean, I'd like to try one of those as well. So what do you guys think? Will it work?
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as long as theres not medicine in it or something it will work.
i have 2 shrimp in a planted 1 gallon container
 
Go for it! Just make sure you do a thorough cleaning of the container, but there's no reason why you couldn't do a nano set up in one of those jugs! Cool idea! Make sure to post pics if you can! :headbang2
 
I don't think this container was ever used for anything besides water. The glass is crystal clear and it had no odor, but I rinsed it like 30 times anyway. I set it up today with some Eco-Complete with a layer of clay underneath. I added a few small river stones and fragments of driftwood that I could fit through the top of the jug. I don't currently have many plants going, but I added a little bit of hornwart and a small crypt and added 3 MTS and a ramshorn. I'll be in Columbus tomorrow, so I'll stop at a fish store there and pick up a few more low-light plants to try. If the plants and snails do well, I also might get a small group of some type of shrimp.
 
If you get shrimp I recommend amano shrimp and crystal reds - and post a pic so we know what you're talking about.
 
If I do get shrimp, I was thinking about cherry reds (I've had them before and liked them) and bee shrimp (wild type of the crystal reds, the bluish color will be a nice contrast with the red of the others). If the plants/inverts do well and I can get the other jug clean, I'd also like to scale this up to a 5 gal size as well. And here's a pic of it so far.
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I'd like to get some sort of thin column of driftwood for the center and add some more plants. I think it will be good for viewing little shrimp because the curvature of the glass magnifies everything (check out the ramshorn in the top right-he's not nearly as big as he looks in pic)
 
That's awesome - and cherry reds would be perfect. I don't know if adding more plants would be a good idea for right now. Maybe try what you have and see if it grows out a bit.
 
looks cool
 
I added a small java fern and a little java moss to see if I can get a little covering on the wood and rocks-basically some place for baby shrimp to hide. That will be it for the plants.
 
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