I posted this on your other thread as well, but here you go again.
One thing I'm actually doing is with those half flattened marbles that you can find in craft stores for way cheaper then the pet stores, I'm using an aquarium safe epoxy and making some decorative hiding places for my tank set up. You can get a bag of those and get creative in making a cave for him. It does take time as you have to let the expoxy set up between layers once you get a little height to it. Here is a pic of those marbel thingies just to let you know what my vague description was of. ^_^

 

Hahaha I just found some of those laying around, actually!!! Might see what I can do about using those for his cave What kind of glue/epoxy do you use?

 

It was this stuff here. The packaging has changed a little, the picture of the fish in on the bottom part fo the container now. It's about $5 and goes quite a long way. You just need to let it cure for 48 hrs then was the entire thing off before putting it in the tank.

 

Awesome, thanks so much!!!

 

i did make a silk plant using aquarium sealant, silk leaves and some section of plastic model tray. maybe there are decorative silk plants in your house or know some one who does have them.

 

I have some flowers? hahaha thats about it though

 

fake silk flowers could work if there are no hard and sharp plastic edges. if you find any maybe they can float for a bed near the top of a tank.

 

Old coffee mugs!
My betta Chile LOVES them!, just lay it on its side and tada!
I have pots in two of my tanks, one bough for 68cents at a craft store,the other one at the dollar tree ($1... its a bit bigger and yellow)

You can try breaking it like I did ith my yellow one (took FOREVER) or justfine one broken (which I did with this one) just dont forget to sand rouh edges and cover the whole on the top! (I used a pebble)

 

Yep yep, the dollar store shouldn't be ignored for ideas. There are quite a few safe things you can get there; and just use aquarium sealant to glue what you want together. I used a ginormous vine from there to make a canopy to fill the upper portions of my community tank.

 

Hmmm, might be able to drag mom to AC Moore...she hates petsmart and refuses to go there XP I just thought of a cute cave idea so I will go work on that now!!

 

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I had the same problem, haha. My parents were getting annoyed at my similar obsession and our local petstores don't have the broadest selection. So I bought these items:

1 $1 Coffee Cup (Dollar Store)
2 $1 Silk plants (Dollar Store)
$6 Aquarium glue (Lowe's Hardware)
$3 pk of Plastic Canvas (Walmart)

I boiled the coffee cup and plants (for sanitation) and sanded down rough parts on the cup. I cut the sharp edges off the plants and any material that seemed unsafe. Then I cut the plants to my desire and glued them to cut pieces of the plastic canvas. Dug the pieces of plastic canvas into the rocks. Boom, cheap aquarium decorations for your liking

 

Thats kinda what I did for the cave XP Used plastic canvas and stuck little flowers in it to cover tha cave, now I am using leaves to make other decorations

 

WOW, love it!
Beautiful and creative!

 

we need a sticky along the lines of this thread's topic.

 

Ditto that!

 

I definitely agree, not many DIY decoration ideas out there for public use XP

 

i just came back from the hardware store with some aquaiuadhesive and some terra cotta pot bottoms. gonna be awhile till everything is in place, but ill try and post pics

 

Awesome, lookin forward to pics!

 

i should have gotten some terra cotta pots to experiment my jeweler's saw on. oh well.

also id imagine anyone with access to a ceramics studio could make really kick arse decorations

 

yeah, the only thing is you hav to be careful since some of the protective coats they use cause bumps which can seriously injure a betta (my mom used to do it and I have some of her old "art")

 

i probably wouldn't glaze it, and sand it all over, so it could have bacteria all over..but then again would be a magnet for algae too

 

I am useing an easter egg I cut a hole out of and lite the eges on fire so I got a smooth ege! He dosen't go in it much thou... he is to busy trying to kill me

 

Can you post a picture of it?

 

Me?

 

Okay! I just went and took the picture. I burnt the side a little >.<

 

Aw, thats actually a really cute idea

 

I should try that XP but Jazz has a jar-covered-in-mesh-and-pink-silk-flowers cave I spent 2 hours on already XP