Floating Cave?

[bettaBetta]

Well, here's the deal. I had that beeder net in the females tank when I had Achilles in there. Now that Achilles is in his own tank I wanted to take the ugly thing out of my nice (natural looking) aquarium, but the girlies really like it and often sleep around it and hide behind it when other girls are picking on them, the otos like it too. So, I was trying to figure out a plan to make everyone happy and i was thinking that maybe I could buy some aquarium silicone and some nice looking gravel and silicone the gravel to the outside of the net (after making an entrance of course) and making it into a floating cave. Do you think it'd even work?
I still wouldn't like it much, but it's be better than what it looks like now.
I was also thinking maybe replacing the netting with glass, but I wouldn't trust myself with working with glass.
Any other ideas?

 

[nino]

Don't remember who, but someone on this forum has a discus tank. In it, they suction cupped planted driftwood to the side walls of the tank. It looked really cool. Maybe you could do something like that, where you put a couple pieces together to make a wood cave sort of deal. Just a thought.

 

[Durbkat]

Why don't you just take those things that hang on the side of the tank to hold the net in one place and take them off so that way it will go all over the tank? Or you could put some gravel in it and let it sink to the bottom.

 

[bettaBetta]

Why don't you just take those things that hang on the side of the tank to hold the net in one place and take them off so that way it will go all over the tank? Or you could put some gravel in it and let it sink to the bottom.

It hangs on the side of the tank by two metal bars. Its just that I don't like looking at a big white basket in my tank and I want to make it look nicer.

 

[consp]

Maybge you could by a floating plant such as watr hyacinth? They grow to be uite large but are cheap to replace when they do.

Other floating plants like water soldiers and water lettuce might be good.

Lots of LFS and reptil shops sell these "floating" for turtle tanks that may be ideal... I don't reccommen the store because I've never shopped there but a quick google to find one brought this one up http/www.turtlesale.com/drying-ledges.html Scandown the page, they are the docks with suction cups.

Hope this helps

 

[zendarx2]

I think it would work just fine. But I would take some flat stones like limestone or something of the such. might have to soak it first to leach anything out and then glue it into a cave....you could put some plants around it or glue some sand or stone to it. I am thinking about doing somthing like that. Let us know what you do and how it works out