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Image 1 — Can I use a manual tile cutter to cut glass and make custom tanks?  Everything is pointing towards "No" but seems like it should work.
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Can I use a manual tile cutter to cut glass and make custom tanks? Everything is pointing towards "No" but seems like it should work.

My use case is to make a lot of smaller shallow tanks (around 2 gallon) like in the second picture above, so I was trying to find something like this to where I can make a jig and rather than measure and mark each piece of glass, I can just place the glass up against the jig and and cut all pieces to be the same exact size.

This 14" tile cutter is only $49 so I thought I could use something like this, but after googling, it seems that these wouldn't be a great idea to use with glass? I can't really seem to find anybody that has really used them for glass either, so I wanted to see if anybody here has done something similar or has any ideas?

u/wikiwakawakawee — 1 day ago

Update: unexpected reincarnation

Update to previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mossariums/s/pFoEi1NJg5

So I posted in here with a question about some moss I had. The verdict was that it was very much dead, gone, mouldy, no saving it. Seemed I'd overwatered it. I was disappointed but gave up on it, put my containers outside to clean out and try again with a plan to do my base with pebbles, charcoal and sphagnum moss below my soil to allow better drainage. Well I have ADHD and out of sight = out of mind. I forgot to clean out the container but found it when I went to go search for a bigger pot for an aloe plant that had outgrown it's current pot 2 days ago. I was surprised to find it looking like this- especially as it was just about swimming from the rain that had collected in it (I'm in Australia so it's winter here). Carefully tipped out the water while not tipping out the contents, brought it back inside and during the day when the sun is out it turns green and lush like this, goes dormant overnight and then lights back up green and happy looking when the sun comes out. I haven't a clue how it went from that dead, mouldy horrible state to this but YAY!!! A mossy miracle to share with you all!!

u/JustSomeGirl4242 — 1 day ago
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~2 year old thread miss landscape in a 16oz jar

First trim in about a year. Was super over grown, had to hunt for a few of the pebbles

u/TheSchizScientist — 8 days ago

I have no Idea? 🤷

So I've been collecting random bits of Flora since I moved to Southern Oregon. I genuinely didn't have a plan at first, I was just collecting things I thought were neat. So that led to making this. A mini scene of randomness (lion's mane mushrooms wouldn't grow so symmetrically unless the hole was perfect, for example)

So I recently found an oil lantern with a ton of very large bees in them perfectly preserved... I feel compelled to create battles of antiquity with them as like a taxidermy diorama.

Am I insane? Should I delete this post and not bring it up to others?

u/Pork_Confidence — 8 days ago

I'm making mossarium earrings

Basically the title! I originally got these little jars to make a "jar of dirt" charm for a cat named Sparrow (CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow!) and since I have leftovers decided to give this a shot! I've always wanted something alive to wear. We'll see if they work out, lol.

There's some decayed moist bark and some moss tendrils in each. Fingers crossed that this works!

u/_gloomshroom_ — 9 days ago

Lichen background

I found the most AMAZING piece of bark with lichen on it today!

I hot-glued three sticks behind it to keep it flat and upright, then glued the other two sticks on top that had already been living in my mossarium. I finally have the perfect background

The whole mossarium has been going brilliantly since a major overhaul ten months ago. Just local moss lichen and liverworts, rotted wood substrate kept saturated, rainwater spray as needed, LED lights, lid with ventilation, container slightly smaller than an A4 piece of paper.

u/Alepidotus — 8 days ago

My second mossarium

I think this might be the best terrarium i made till now. Took a few shots at making a nice paludarium and made a mossarium before, but all came out a big mess.

This one seems very clean yet natural to me, let me know your thoughts.

u/AvailableReason6278 — 12 days ago