熔融玻璃鱼碗是我们很长一段时间以来最有趣的新水族馆概念之一。当您认为这些作品与到目前为止的水族馆世界几乎没有任何关系时，这完全令人惊讶。
The world of high end aquariums is mostly dominated by super straight, flat aquariums with ultra-clear and sharp edged glass. So you can imagine how our interest was piqued when we sighted amorphous, glass bowls which seemed to have been melted onto their wooden pedestals at a market in Bali.
These molten glass bowls are exactly what they sound like, and made exactly how you might expect. Red hot bowls of glass are placed directly on unique sections of wood while the glass is still hot, allowing the glass to cool and harden right in place. The resulting semi-fusion of glass and wood look like something right out of a Salvador Dali painting.
对于那些对玻璃工作有任何知识的人，您知道需要在高温下退火，并缓慢冷却以防止开裂，气泡和使玻璃尽可能难。由于熔融玻璃碗的性质，我们认为不可能将玻璃和木材放在这种退火环境中。
The manufacturing process of these misshapen bowls therefore results in some minor imperfections of the glass, with some pieces showing plenty of trapped bubbles in the glass. The makers of the molten glass bowls make up for this to some degree by using extra thick glass for each of the bowls, and the unique glass and wood creations are plenty attractive regardless.
更多常规的水族馆制造商在外面进行了试验盒子碗withAquaEl’s Sphere and Lunaaquariums, both with built in filtration, andCobalt Aquatics’ hand-blown glass pico-aquariums. The unpredictable shape of these molten glass bowls would make it hard to turn them into pico reef tanks of their own, not speaking of the difficulty in shipping such an unconventional shaped aquarium. But hopefully these pictures inspire other glass blowers to try their hand at making unusual aquariums.
