WTB: Texas Holey Rock

[crazyclowntang]

i Use egg crate cuz cichlids like to dig and if they dig under rocks depending on how you have them stacked they could collapse and kill your fish and damage the tank. Also I dont like the bottom of the tank getting scratched by the rocks

 

[mrkillie]

What is HOT? Also do i need to put down egg crate?

No. I have never put down eggcrate in any tank in over 40 years of fishkeeping, and all cichlid tanks always have rocks in them. No problems whatsoever.

Joel

 

[mrkillie]

BTW, my cichlids don't dig, cause they have nothing to dig in. If I had some sort of substrate, I would definitely want to stabilize the rock structure somehow, either by using eggcrate as suggested or by siliconing the rocks together before setting up the tank.

Joel

 

[fischfan13]

Egg crate is, IMO, a waste of money.

I have one tank that has over 150 lbs of rock in it with a sand substrate and the rocks do not move and the glass does not crack or break.
I have stacked river rock and lace rock. I have a piece of Holey Rock that it over 40lbs. I have rocks stacked to the left of tanks and to the right of tanks. I have tanks that have high rock piles dead center of the tank. No tank has EVER cracked.
I have stacks of river rocks that are up to the top of the tank and have never siliconed them (what do you do when you want to take them out, rearrange the tank, clean the area under the rocks etc...?)

 

[fischfan13]

[YT]<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PgEwEiTyYcs&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PgEwEiTyYcs&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>[/YT]

 

[minifoot77]

can we try that experiment in one of your tanks bill?