RE: [GSAS-Member] Fish Breeding Caves

["Hess, Clay A" <clay.a.hess@boeing.com>]

If you have a jigsaw that is variable speed, you can buy a ceramic blade
for it and cut the clay pot with it too....again, as Eric noted, go slow
and let the saw do the work.

Clay 

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Olson [mailto:erik@thekrib.com] 
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:43 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Fish Breeding Caves

Use a hacksaw.  Go slow.  Buy several.

I also have used coconut shells (halved on a table saw) as apisto caves.

   - Erik


On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, SUSAN WELENOFSKY wrote:

> Geez, how do you saw a clay pot without breaking it???
>
> Susan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gsas-member-bounces@thekrib.com] On Behalf Of matt kaufman
> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 5:22 PM
> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
> Subject: RE: [GSAS-Member] Fish Breeding Caves
>
> So, take a small clay flowerpot and hacksaw off a corner of the rim, 
> then seal it to the base forming a clay 'tee pee'. The fish will go in

> and out of
>
> the hole you've made. I've spawned all kinds of cichlids - you can do 
> big ones and spawn lake tanganyika fish like julies and pretty much 
> anything brichardi/leleupi like.
>
> usually much cheaper than Rino caves or whatever and as effective.  
> Plus much easier to obtain, small clay flower pots are usually cheap 
> (I could make an adequate cave for less than $1).
>
>
>> From: "Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member 
>> chat<gsas-member@thekrib.com>
>> To: "GSAS Member Chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
>> Subject: [GSAS-Member] Fish Breeding Caves
>> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 17:01:21 -0800
>>
>> Does anyone have some nice fish breeding caves for sale? I have some 
>> Apistogrammas I am going to try and breed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Susan
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