Any suggestions for a good breeding cave/shell for calvus/compressiceps?

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I've got 4 decent size gold head compressiceps and 2 calvus. It seems like all of the sudden the compressiceps are spawning a bunch. I had 2 of them gaurding fry at the same time. I grabbed the fry from the one and was going to get the 2nd batch the next day but when I woke up they were gone! So out of the ones I netted I have like 13 or so that are living and doing well. I had a bunch die when they were very small which was weird for me since I've raised a bunch of different species of fry and didn't have any others at all just die.
I dont' have any breeding caves or shells for them but I do have some big sea shells (which they dont use). My lace rock has a lot of cavities in it, they have been laying they eggs in the rock. Well that's making it hard for them to gaurd. Just recently I had anther gaurding eggs but she was unable to keep then safe and I actulally watched another compressiceps eat the eggs! The mom looks really stressed defending them out in the open as well.
So I want to get them a specific place to breed. Can anyone make a recommendation for me? A link would be great. I found these on ebay but they seem a little expensive to me, but maybe not, thats why I'm asking. Wow, this auction was ended while I was typing, well here it is anyway.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150259258101&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Now I just found these.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Tube-Log-breed-...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item22fda15006
 
That is expensive (ebay) - I know the site where they bought theirs from, I'll find the link (if you loike that style). I purchased my shells & caves from. I'll try to see if I saved the link on my other PC.
 
Thanks for everyones suggesting. Exactly what I was looking for. Great price too!
I will most likely buy them regardless but has anyone had any experience with these products? Review?
 
I have bought caves from southcentral cichlids as well as am having them fashion some custom ones for me. I have been extremely pleased both with their product and their customer service.
 
Hey Razz i caught on to that as well i have bought a lot of stuff from Don at cichlid breeding.com and when i seen that eBay listing i was like wow someone is scamping off little buddy.. yeah i posted the same site above as well hehehe we were thinking the same thing.. LOL
 
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