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Hello everyone,

for the last 2months I wanted to make a nice cave for these little critters.

I was tossing between slatecaves or caves made from clays kilned.

I couldn't find a decent kilner in sydney so i opted for the slate design.

BUT i couldn't find any decent slates,

so i bought a bunch of tiles with clay kilned bottom and made a cave using Lyretails design (i'd buy your cave but i am in oz)

As from the picture my zebs like it so hopefully i get a positive result very soon.

ps male is in the cave and thats the female you are looking at on the right corner

Nice job....Wish you lots of spawns

thanks,

now males guarding the cave with 2 females around each side of the caves

fingerscrossed.

though stupid peppermint and other bristlenose i have sometimes kicks out the male so might be time for a species tank

Not too bad.

No need to worry about "my design" I only copied the dimensions from this site.
My improvements have been the distressed edges, front porch and a removable top.
I am actually puzzled why other people have not copy my design.

The main problem I had with ceramic tile is that the ones that I found that I liked,
had cross pattern on the bottom which made them impossible to seal together.
They were also too hard to distress the edges

I have been working on Molded clay stoneware caves of various shapes.
I made some pretty nice molds, however what I thought would save me
some hours seems to be more labor intensive and a lot of waiting time for air drying