I am new, and last night was spending my leisure hours looking at all of the tanks entered into the past competitions.
In one tank (I think it had a betta in it) were three, what appeared to be, half coconut shells, which had had little doorways cut into them to provide shelter for shy fish.
I have a half coconut shell, abandoned by the birds after they had devoured the contents.
So - my question is - CAN we use coconut shells in aquaria? And if so, do they need any particular preparation to make them safe? eg boiling them, shaving the bristly fibres off etc.
Thank you in advance for any comments - and also, if anyone has any other suggestions for home-made, natural looking "nooks" for fish, I'd love to hear your ideas. I expect that somewhere on this forum this may have been discussed, but I'm still learning to navigate to threads and I'm not very "tech-savvy", so if they are old discussions I may never find them.
Cheers!
In one tank (I think it had a betta in it) were three, what appeared to be, half coconut shells, which had had little doorways cut into them to provide shelter for shy fish.
I have a half coconut shell, abandoned by the birds after they had devoured the contents.
So - my question is - CAN we use coconut shells in aquaria? And if so, do they need any particular preparation to make them safe? eg boiling them, shaving the bristly fibres off etc.
Thank you in advance for any comments - and also, if anyone has any other suggestions for home-made, natural looking "nooks" for fish, I'd love to hear your ideas. I expect that somewhere on this forum this may have been discussed, but I'm still learning to navigate to threads and I'm not very "tech-savvy", so if they are old discussions I may never find them.
Cheers!