Question by Katie: I Need Help With Centerpieces?
A friend and I are in charge of decorating for our spring formal, and for centerpieces, we were going to do candles in wine bottles. However, after thinking about it, we came up with the idea to get tall cylinder vases, fill the bottoms with black gravel and blue marbles, and put a few small feeder goldfish in it. Would that be better than the wine bottles? I know that the gravel colors would tie in with our theme colors, and the fish would tie in with a fish pond that we’re going to be doing as the center of our “central park” garden.

P.S- I don’t want to be berated for using animals as “decorations”. We’ll be treating them well, feeding them, conditioning their water and using only aquarium quality gravel and decorative stones. After the formal is over, they will be going to good homes; a few of us already have aquariums ready for them.

P.P.S- Just wondering, would floating candles harm the fish?
Nesli K- Thanks for the advice! We’re going to address everyone before hand and tell them that they can’t take the fish home. And yep! We were talking about the taper candles in wine bottles. Our event is inside, but one reason I was a little hesitant would be fire hazards.

Thanks to everyone else, too!

Best answer:

Answer by subliminal_suggestion
Floating candles won’t harm feeder goldfish. They are amazing survivors usually. Neat idea

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