Which shells from this site would be good as a breading shell?
http://www.buythesea-bymail.co.uk/natural-shells-15-c.asp
http://www.buythesea-bymail.co.uk/natural-shells-15-c.asp
Comp Shells for Breeding.
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i would think the tonna shell because it looks the closest to the shells of snails that live in lake Tanganyika
You would be better off using a cave made for calvus or compressiceps: http://store.southcentralcichlids.com/servlet/-strse-Caves/Categories
yes if you can get the caves like joes yes there great if not you should be lookinng for shells what are not to twisted you will get more of a success rate and it is mucch eaisier
FYI: Don't put shells with big open twists into the center with africans.
I saw my male kenyi get spooked and shoot way inside one, totally stuck. He's my best 'Save' ever: I held it & him in a little bucket and kept swishing water in & out of it, sawing a square off the shell with a dremel.. thought for sure he'd either be dead from oxygen deprivation or me slicing him, but I got him out unscathed and he survived. It took a LONG time after bedtime. I still have him AND the shell with the escape hatch! I love that darn fish, he's mean and survived more than 1 mismanagement wreck. He eats nicely from my fingers but tears me up if I put my hand in his tank. he scrapes skin off!
Anyway, choose shells carefully. everybody told me they would've just let him die.
I saw my male kenyi get spooked and shoot way inside one, totally stuck. He's my best 'Save' ever: I held it & him in a little bucket and kept swishing water in & out of it, sawing a square off the shell with a dremel.. thought for sure he'd either be dead from oxygen deprivation or me slicing him, but I got him out unscathed and he survived. It took a LONG time after bedtime. I still have him AND the shell with the escape hatch! I love that darn fish, he's mean and survived more than 1 mismanagement wreck. He eats nicely from my fingers but tears me up if I put my hand in his tank. he scrapes skin off!
Anyway, choose shells carefully. everybody told me they would've just let him die.