Candle aquariums, aquarium candles

Make a little aquarium with lamp oil, an old glass jar, and a few toy fish. It might take some shopping for a few supplies, like a diamond drill bit and glass tube wicks. For a basic oil candle, there isn't much to do but drill a hole in the lid, and add a wick.

Materials and tools:

• Glass jar with lid
• Glass tube wick holder + wick
• Clear paraffin lamp Oil
• Clear resin/epoxy
• Toy fish and shells
• Drill
• Special tools: Glass and tile drill bit or diamond bit

For the instructions, please join me after the break.

Candle Aquarium(click thumbnails to view gallery)

1. Start by drilling the lid with the diamond bit. Drill slowly and work from both sides of the hole.
2. Insert the wick and glass tube, making sure the wick reaches the bottom of the jar.
3. Once the basic candle is done, you can arrange sea shells, plastic fish, and other sea creatures in the jar. Everything has to be glued down with clear epoxy to keep it from floating in the oil. Use clear plastic cut from a soda bottle to mount the fish into an elevated position. In the pictures, earring clasps were used to hold the fish on the clear plastic, but you can epoxy them too. Let the epoxy dry completely before going further.
4. Fill your candle with clear paraffin lamp oil. Spend the extra $2 for the better quality stuff: it has a cleaner burn.
5. Set the wick just barely above the glass tube collar and light it.

Watch the glow... oooh, the flickering kind of gives it a moving water effect. Someday, I'd like to put a toy alien head inside a jar with green lamp oil....

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