Cave dimensions? L240

All posts regarding the care and breeding of these catfishes from South America.
Post Reply
User avatar
MissNoodle
Posts: 461
Joined: 03 Oct 2019, 20:51
My articles: 1
My images: 31
My cats species list: 27 (i:27, k:5)
My aquaria list: 4 (i:4)
My BLogs: 7 (i:35, p:389)
My Wishlist: 10
Spotted: 42
Location 1: Ontario
Location 2: Canada

Cave dimensions? L240

Post by MissNoodle »

Looking into a replacement cave for my L240, who is just barely 4 inches now, but will get larger eventually... what size of a cave should I be looking for?

Right now he has a hollow log driftwood and he has been chewing it to pieces, taking little vampire sized bites out of it and making a mess out of the tank lol so hes going to need a new log soon, but if I'm spending money on a new hideaway, I want it to last until hes grown, so id like to know what size I should be looking for.

Look at the mess lol that log had a whole side wall there, its gone and hes chewed a hole in the top of it like a sunroof. Ignore chunky gravid cory who really needs to drop some eggs. You can see the little chips taken out of the wood too.
20201224_205209.jpg
And the culprit destroying his home faster than I can find a good replacement for him lol
20201211_201834.jpg
Corydoras, Hoplosternum, Farlowella, Pleco
AmazonTank
Posts: 216
Joined: 14 Mar 2019, 18:13
I've donated: $25.00!
My cats species list: 4 (i:0, k:1)
My Wishlist: 2
Spotted: 6
Location 1: Miami Lakes
Location 2: San Diego
Interests: Gulper Cats, Chaca Chaca Archipelago Cats, black ghost knifes, irwini cats, armatus, pipa pipa frogs, l397, l306 & l204 to name a few fish I keep!
Contact:

Re: Cave dimensions? L240

Post by AmazonTank »

Hi nice pics that Cory is huge! I have lots of hollow wood logs in my tanks! What a mess those wood eaters are something else.
I tried some tight clay caves 1.5" diameter 6-10" long and my l397 and l204 plecos seem to really love there tight new caves!
The experts will weigh in but that worked well for me!
Post Reply

Return to “South American Catfishes (Loricariidae - Plecos et al)”