Cave Decor

MrWhite

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Any ideas on how to make a little cave hide away for my 110l maybe outta of a plant pot or something ?
 
Probably the easiest quick cave is a plant pot laying on its side and half buried in the substrate. Almost as easy is to split a pot from top to bottom and lay a half on the substrate. To split a pot, you start tapping lightly along a line on the pot where you want it to break with something hard. Each light tap creates very small invisible cracks in the pot and as their numbers build up, the pot eventually falls into 2 pieces. Right before it falls into 2 pieces, the sound it makes when you tap it will become more of a thud than a tapping sound. That will tell you that you are close.
 
You can get an expanding foam which is chemically inert after it sets. You could spray that on a plant pot and throw some sand over it to make it look more natural. Quite a few marine tanks are having backgrounds made with this method.
 
I used to make and sell caves made of grey water pipe fittings cut in half lengthways then by using a grinder ground grooves and notches into it and it looked a bit like slate.

Here's a picture of a small ones, some I made were huge

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