I just remembered, when TwoTankAmin mentioned cichlid keepers using it to rest rocks on, people who keep saltwater tanks also use it, for resting rock/coral on. So if you have any aquatic shops with a marine section, they may have some, or be able to recommend somewhere.

I got mine from Pier Aquatics in Wigan.

Most people recommend an electrical or lighting shop, but I've not had much luck finding any in an electrical shop.

It can usually be found on online auction sites if you can't find it anywhere else, it is arranged as a grid usually with 8-10mm square gaps.

Thanks for the insight Chuck.

I have some egg crate as it happens, I might give that a go.

Interesting what you say about the L260 breeding in pairs. I have what I believe are two pairs, they were sexed when I purchased them from a reputable store, in the same tank. All 4 of them just hide out in their own caves occasionally fanning, I rarely see them interacting with each other, if I eve...

While doing a water change this morning the male left the cave for a few seconds and I managed to get a picture of the wrigglers, these are from the third spawn. Looks like there are 40+ in there, originally it looked to me like there were 20-30 eggs.

Looking good, I have similar issues getting good pictures!

Are they coming out into the open more now? My L128 are now coming out into the open more I'm wondering if the L200 have the same behaviour.

The third batch of eggs has just hatched into wrigglers. A few came out of the cave today so I used a turkey baster to suck them up and put back with the male. I made all of the caves in that tank myself, from slate, I found it cheaper to buy it from a garden centre, more choice too. Just check ther...

I managed to get a couple more pictures yesterday when performing a water change. The first is one of the young approx. 6 weeks since the eggs were laid. IMG_20161228_094120-1.jpg This one is of the male guarding the third batch of eggs, for all three spawns it has been the same couple spawning. IMG...

Thanks, I'm surprised they seem to be breeding so regularly, I've not had this many broods from any type of fish before!

The young still seem to be doing well, they haven't grown much at all though.

The male is sitting on his third lot of eggs now, I spotted them this morning, there seem to be 20-30 eggs, maybe laid a couple days ago.

Hopefully his parenting skills improve further and more survive from this spawn.

They look to be doing really well, they seem to be growing already!

They look very similar to my L128, yours maybe slightly lighter in colour.

Have you started feeding them yet?

Cool, 25 seems like a good number to have make it this far. To add a video you can put it on a video site e.g. YouTube then link to it like you would a species in the cat-elog e.g. [*youtube] last part of url here [/youtube*] Remove the * at the start and end, that was just to stop it trying to link...

Good to hear, how many have made it so far?

I have about 6 of my L128's still doing well, they are slow growers though, they haven't got noticeably larger since their yolk disappeared, which was about 3 weeks ago. I guess L200 will be similarly slow growing.

I have tried keeping a group of 45 Corydoras habrosus and struggled with them, I quarantined them for 8 weeks and they were fine, after moving them to a larger tank they died off one by one and were all gone after a few weeks. I have no idea what caused it, there were no external signs of anything b...

There are a couple pictures below, poor quality (high iso) as the tank is very dark, and they like to hide in the small gaps, plus its hard to focus on something so small, while holding a torch in the other hand! Anyway they give you an idea, hopefully when they are slightly bigger I can transfer th...

All have left the cave now, I just counted 6 hiding around the tank, there may be a couple more I can't see. They have started to get small blue spots, and appear to be growing. I haven't target fed them, however every night there is a whole courgette cut in half along the length for the adults, whi...

Also have a read of these articles:

Feeding Plecos Part 1: http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... cle_id=294
Feeding Plecos Part 2: http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworl ... cle_id=426

I have fed mine red peppers before, they did eat a small amount but didn't seem too interested, so I haven't fed it again, however, some may like it more than others.

Thanks for the tip, they seem to be ok at the moment, I did a water change yesterday morning of about 75 litres and just used my normal method, a small Eheim pump from a bucket to get the water into the tank. I do worry about temperature or water parameter changes causing them stress, i'll monitor t...

Thanks Chuck, that's good to hear, I was worried they may be trapped by the male and starve.

Congratulations, I am raising some L128 at the moment, the first clutch of eggs, maybe 40-60 I left with the male. Some got kicked out of the cave while they still had yolk sacs. I left some in the tank, and put some in a floating breeder box. None of them survived. About 3-4 weeks later the male wa...

The young are still doing well, and have used all of their yolk sacs. From seeing a small amount of stringy faeces coming from one I guess they have started to feed! I think there are between 6-10 fry, although there are lots of cracks in the roof of the slate cave so its hard to count them. Most ar...

The young seem to be doing much better this time :-). There are about 10 hiding in the back of the cave in the small cracks and some on the ceiling. It looks like most of their yolk sacs have been depleted. However the male is still in the cave blocking the exit. Should I try and poke some food into...

Hi All, When doing a water change this morning I noticed a few fungused yolk sacs were in the waste water. I took a look in the cave which held the previous spawn, and there are wrigglers in there again. Based on the previous batch, I would guess it has been about 7-10 days since the eggs were laid....

Unfortunately, none of them made it. I'm still hoping one is hiding and will appear from the rocks one day!

The female looks to be gravid and is spending a lot of time outside the males cave, so hopefully they will have another go soon.

There are no more fry in the cave, and I can only count 4 outside of the cave. The yolk sacs are almost gone, I think I'll begin targeted feeding in the next day or two, however I suspect that they will be getting enough leftovers from the adults food. The picture below was taken this morning. IMG_2...

I forgot to update on that, I actually caught several, around 6 in total, at various stages of development, and put them in the breeder box. The first one died, so I put a fine layer of sand in there before I put any others in, and the remaining fish died over the weekend, some of them did get a whi...

Hi All, I have just removed 6 more dead fry. There are 6 still in the cave with the male, and 4 I can see alive outside of the cave. Probably several more which I can't see, I've attached a couple recent pictures, they still have the yolk sacs but are getting bigger up to around 12mm. Any thoughts o...

Thanks Smitty. I returned from a couple days away to find a few more dead fry. There are maybe 10-15 left in the cave, and at least 5 individuals doing well outside of the cave. Based on my earlier estimates there should be about 10-20 more somewhere, they are well camouflaged against the grey sand ...