What To Use To Make A Catfish Cave

[Liquid skills]

Hi guys im fed up of my brotgers eel messing up my sand mountain he hides in a china banboo ornament hole either end and one hole in the middle

Any way i cant afford a cat cave atm and want to know what i can make a cat cave out of all ideas will be greatly appreshiated

Please note i mean house hold items eg bottles etc
Thanks in advace

Chris

 

[wellbeloved747]

coconut shells make good caves and will cost about 30p

cut the top off and then split them down the middle. give them a wash and hey presto 1 or 2 caves

and if you cut them right you can stack them up to.

 

[Liquid skills]

Kul thank also i should mention this cave will be under the sand so its prob a bit high but will make two anyway for my other tanks my female bettas love caves

 

[soybean]

Tupperware box with a hole cut in, upside down? Hard to think of safe household objects.

 

[Blubble37]

i prefer to use 3 rocks... 2 props and one cave lid... this can be put under the sand quite easily

 

[Liquid skills]

Thanks this may work as i have tones o left over flat rocks from the way it used to look ill go and investigate

 

[Blubble37]

what you idealy want it one big flat rock and 2 chubbly little rocks... then put the whole thing under the substrate and cover the top with sand

 

[wellbeloved747]

Tupperware box with a hole cut in, upside down? Hard to think of safe household objects.

my fish died like this i used a old Tupperware and partially buried it, it got in ok but never came out

 

[Liquid skills]

Yeh i have a rock that is about 4" across so thatle work ill prop it on the little rocks and put a rock at the back so the eel dsnt dig his way out as thats the problem i have a banboo orn in there he hides in but he keep going out the back end of it thus making the sand collaps and fall in the cave

 

[wellbeloved747]

affective

http/thefishcave.com.au/index.html

this website is great has loads and loads of home made fish caves

 

[Blubble37]

You could use one of those hot glue guns and melt a bead of plastic around the rocks to the base of the tank... should stop him getting out alright

 

[Liquid skills]

I dont have rocks that fin but mine ll do

With the fish dying he burys himself and travels through the sand so he wont die by being buryd id hope but can never be too sure