I'm curious - how do you use (mount) your spawning mops for corys?

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Hi All,

I'm throwing this out to get your feedback. I know many people, myself included, use spawning mops with their corys. Myself, I position them in one of a few ways:

• hanging from a cork, and the cork is floating free in the water. This mop drifts around the tank following the water currents.
• hanging from a cork, which is dangling out of the tank over the side wall of the aquarium. This is easy to position, but the yarn can behave like a capillary and draw water out and over the tank wall, and then the water drips on the floor - I've found this can leak a lot of water in just a few hours.
• hanging from a cork, with the cork stuffed/lodged in the outflow of an HOB filter box.
• hanging from a cork, with the cork clipped into a standard suction cup ring intended for mounting an aquarium heater. I've started using this only recently. It prevents the capillary leakage, but the mops are more difficult to reposition, and it requires the extra hardware (heater ring/suction cup).

And as for placement in the tank, do you prefer to place the mops

• in an area of strong current, or
• in a quiet area of the tank.

Or does your decision vary from one species of cory to another?

Finally, are there other configurations I haven't considered? Myself, I also use sinking (weighted) mops with banjo cats, but I don't use those with corys. Does anybody prefer those with corys?

Thanks for your answers.

Cheers, Eric