What is the best place to buy pleco breeding caves?

tropics007

tropics007

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I have looked around online some, and the cheapeast I can find is $7 a cave plus shipping.

I have a group of 11 brown BN plecos that are breeding size, so I wanted to go ahead and have the breeding caves available for them to use.

Does anyone know where I can possibly find the caves for cheaper? ( I would need 5-10 caves.)

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If you have any sugesstions on what other type of decorations plecos can spawn in, please let me know.
 
I think slate would work. Or you could just make caves out of river rocks or use the rocks that they sell at home depot/lowes (the ones u put around large trees and bushes-river rocks). I think clay pots work too. They are like $1 for a big one which u can split into 2.
 
I use PVC pipe and cap one end. They don't seem to care that it's white and unpainted. I keep a piece of driftwood on top of it to make it appear as a natural feature. the BN's don't seem to care about color, they are more interested in functionality.
 
Does anyone know where I can possibly find the caves for cheaper? ( I would need 5-10 caves.)





I know where to buy caves cheaper. Bamboo or ceramic. Five for $35 shipped or ten for $60 also shipped.
 
Does anyone know where I can possibly find the caves for cheaper? ( I would need 5-10 caves.)





I know where to buy caves cheaper. Bamboo or ceramic. Five for $35 shipped or ten for $60 also shipped.
 
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Just get 4 larger terracotta pots(6"). they are like $3 each. Then break each one into 1/2 and you will have 8 caves. put them in the tank.

that would be the cheapest I can think of besides PVC.
 
Thanks for all the replies. I ordered some driftwood logs for the plecos to breed in, and they are supposed to arrive within 5-10 business days. Once they do, I will add them to the tank and post a updated pic.

For right now, I ended up tossing in a few pieces of PVC pipe for the plecos to hide in. They seem to be checking out the pvc pipe already.

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BTW: I plan on moving the red ramshorn snails to their own tank in a few days.
 
Your already there, but yeah, Home Depot or Lowe's is the cheapest cave material stores. lol

You can stack the pipes together and glue them to each other, then silicone slate or pebbles to it, line one side of your tank with that, it'll look like a hillside(what pleco's will naturally spawn in-muddy riverbanks)...
 
Oops, must double clicked instead of single...
 
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