06/06/2026
When visiting my Grandpa for Memorial day, one of his neighbors was throwing out this gorgeous 300-gallon classic aquarium. It was too large for me to take home with me, so I offered to turn it into something nice for whoever could manage to make space for it locally. My Grandpa quickly took a sawzall to some bushes on his front porch, made the space for it, and I got to work!
I had to make do with whatever plants and supplies I could pull together on a two-day vacation, away from home, but it turned out pretty awesome and I'm excited to see how much it's filled in the next time I visit!
Since the aquarium itself was free, the whole thing cost me about $300 to build, with $225 of that being substrate materials from home depot. Plants were the remaining $75. The driftwood and rocks I pulled from a nearby creek, and the other decorations my Grandpa already had in this planter before.
