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substrate excavation infront of cave?

Aquaticloch

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hey all, my pair of macmasteri has a chosen cave (i think), there is a divit infront of it, its maybe 1 cm deep and 4 cm wide. I have seen these created to hold bolivian ram fry, by bolivian rams parents. I was not aware that this was done by apistos especially macs. Will they move the fry into these pockets once they spawn, or were they just adjusting the caves?
 

MacZ

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Cichlids in general love to dig in my experience.
My solo-kept A. hongsloi male is pretty much redecorating 1/4 of the tank. Originally the seedpod was laying on the sand. By now the hole in the ground is so deep, from the right angle the seedpod is almost completely invisible.

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anewbie

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Mine haven't done a lot of digging - mostly just enlarging some crevices under driftwood. They certainly have done less than kribs i previously had or the pleco - i had a pleco that loved to dig 2 inches into the substrate every night. I had to buy him a cave to get him to stop. One of my hongsloi females seems attached to spawning on the sponge of the hmf so she is definitely not re-arranging that.
 

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