"steve" wrote in message
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AW, I made some clay pot caves for my spawning cichlid pairs. I
think they were 3" pots. I tapped them with a hammer on the side, near
the rim, until a crack had formed. Then I tapped the other side
opposite the crack to form a similar crack. With two cracks opposite
each other, running from the rim to the base, I pulled the halves
apart. It broke the pot into two pieces, one with the entire bottom
intact and the other a smaller "half" without the bottom. The half
with the bottom I buried so the bottom drain hole was the only
entrance. The other smaller half I layed quite flat, to form a
shallow, wide mouthed cave.

The cichlids spawned under the bog wood.


steve


LOL. For the last spawning I tried to influence, I positioned 3 clay
pots in different locations. Each had plenty of cover and were very
secure for defending, but each offered a single line of sight so that I
could watch the progress of the eggs. They burrowed under a pot and laid
their eggs on the underside where I couldn't see anything.
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