best rock to make caves for fishes

[Dave1993]

so i want to make more caves for my fishes going to use caribsea life rock which package is best for this for example

Caves (not really suitable for tangs too small)
boulders
Shapes

 

[Lavey29]

so i want to make more caves for my fishes going to use caribsea life rock which package is best for this for example

Caves (not really suitable for tangs too small)
boulders
Shapes

I used caribe sea also. I just stacked, moved, stacked again etc...until I had plenty of caves and arches. Of course now coral conceals a lot of them but the fish still know how to access and use them. I used a lot of rock for my medium size tank. If you look close you can clearly see multiple arches leading to caves.

 

[Dave1993]

I used caribe sea also. I just stacked, moved, stacked again etc...until I had plenty of caves and arches. Of course now coral conceals a lot of them but the fish still know how to access and use them. I used a lot of rock for my medium size tank. If you look close you can clearly see multiple arches leading to caves.

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so did you just use a mixture of boulders arches and shapes?

 

[Dave1993]

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this is my rock atm very minimal i want to add more but don't know what to get

 

[Lavey29]

so did you just use a mixture of boulders arches and shapes?

Mainly boulders and arches. What I like about this fake rock is that you can get pieces to interconnect securely without having to epoxy them. Email caribe sea ask them how much of each you should get for your size tank and the scape you are trying to create. Most LFS carry individual pieces too if you need to add a certain shape.

 

[GarrettT]

Dry rock -> Angle grinder (diamond blade) -> Aragonite sand/Gluemasters (thin). Much more efficient way to make caves.

 

[RedReefer]

Live rock only. Usually ask for arched pieces and longer pieces.

 

[Dave1993]

Live rock only. Usually ask for arched pieces and longer pieces.

the rock in my tank was live unfortunately due to brexit i can no longer get good live rock so dry rock it is

 

[Dave1993]

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these sell good live rock no longer ship to UK tho

 

[vtecintegra]

I used a couple of liferock caves for my tang. 90% of the rest, I used arches. You can stack and bond arches to make additional caves and hiding spots.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Dry rock -> Angle grinder (diamond blade) -> Aragonite sand/Gluemasters (thin). Much more efficient way to make caves.

I did similar. Used an abs coupling to build around:

backside will go against my current rock:

 

[nuxx]

Was able to make some fun ones with my marco rock

 

[GarrettT]