Abstract: The invention concerns an at least partially transparent container for use as an aquarium, herbarium, terrarium, vivarium or the like. The container is characterized therein that it constitutes a building unit that is adapted for engaging complimentarily shaped containers so as to form a display arrangement. The container includes a substantially continuous interior surface defining a chamber for housing fish and/or plants and/or animal or insect matter and/or decorative or ornamental matter; radiused corner zones between interior surfaces of neighboring walls of the container, and at least one sealable aperture extending through a wall of the container for permitting access to the fish and/or plants and/or animal or insect matter and/or decorative or ornamental matter within the container. The invention extends to an aquarium, herbarium, terrarium or vivarium arranged within a transparent and hollow glass brick, as well as to a method of manufacturing a terrarium.
Type:
Application
Filed:
August 15, 2003
Publication date:
June 23, 2005
Applicant:
Square Forest South Africa (Propietary) Limited