Maybe, just maybe

[briztoon]

I have been looking around a few of the garden stores etc. for some small clay pots to use as apisto caves, but have been unable find any small enough that I like.

So having quite a lot of the small open ended clay pots (i've been collecting them for 4 years now) that many aquarium plants come in, I decided to put 3 or 4 in in each tank.

Today at feeding time, I noticed my female A. sp. "blackchin" was more interested in chasing the male away from a back corner than eating. She is very yellow and her black lateral spot, cheek stripes and ventral stripes are popping. And she keeps returning to one of the clay pots. So maybe, just maybe I have my first apisto spawn in my new setup.

I have some not very good pics as Rod and Steve always mention it didn't happen unless you have pics.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd105/pk3333/Dwarf%20cichlid%20tanks/001.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd105/pk3333/Dwarf%20cichlid%20tanks/002.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd105/pk3333/Dwarf%20cichlid%20tanks/004.jpg

[TW]

I've used them too. Because my apistos have sometimes been longer than one of those, I have in the past siliconed two of them end to end.

Good luck with spawn.

[steph]

oohhh good luck with the spawn..

now - where do you get those pots at NOT exhorbitant prices. I used to use 7cmstandard terracotta pots but cant find more of them anywhere and I think the fish like them better than the half pot, as its nice and dark and enclosed.

Steph

[TW]

When you buy aquarium plants, crypts & what not, they come in these pots.

[gingerbeer01]

Noice.

I used to get my pots at Kmart but notice they have gone all plastic. Boo Hiss for Kmart.

[TW]

the only prob I find with these pots is that they are open ended (both ends). But that can be fixed with aquarium safe silicon & perspex or something else affixed at one end to turn it into a little cave.

[briztoon]

I have just placed them against the sides and backs of the tanks. This morning I have a female borellii guarding a pot and chasing the other male and female down to the end of the tank. So I think they make good little apisto caves.

TW is correct. I recently bought half a dozen small anubis nana to tie on to mopani driftwood in my tanks, and each plant came in one of these pots. I also had kept all the pots from when I had set up my 6 foot planted tank and then my 3 foot planted tank.