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If you have a fish tank that has been empty … do not throw it in the container! Take advantage and give it a new useful life turned into a magnificent terrarium with small plants. Your home will look great with it, for sure .
For this, I am going to explain to you how to reuse a fish tank. Thus, not only will your plants be more beautiful, but you also contribute to caring for the environment.
When a fish tank is apparently in disuse, our first reaction is to take it to the recycling bin. While this is great, it is still a somewhat unnecessary action. Glass is a very resistant material, and even if the container has some scratches, it can always be used as a planter or terrarium. It just takes a little creativity to give a new use to something that, until recently, we had planned to throw away.
And the best part is that we don’t need much to transform it into something useful. With some plants, substrate and a little water, we can do real wonders. You do not believe me? Look carefully at the images in this article and you will see how a thousand ideas come to you.
Simple but elegant. Combining river sand with Echeverias this fish tank-terrarium has been spectacular. In addition, having used this type of substrate, we guarantee that the roots of the plants will have a lower risk of rot.
If we have an aquarium, we can take advantage of to put plants that need a high environmental humiditylike the tropical ones. Hypoestes, begonias, coleus, … We can even plant carnivorous, with blond peat, as Cephalotus, Dionaea or Drosera, Among others.
If we want something much simpler, one idea is take some dry branches and cover them with moss. An alternative is the blond peat: if we keep it always moist, almost flooded, in a few weeks we will see the moss grow. Then, we only have to place a small chest or the figure that we like the most.
Would you like not to have to take care of the fish tank? Nothing like some tillandsias y Sempervivum. A few decorative stones, some gravel or peat, and ready.
Do you already know how to reuse a fish tank?
