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Terracotta pot cave

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cynthia

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axolotl tested and approved.

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jon

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Very nice. What did you use to glue on the rocks to the terra cotta pot?
 
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daniel

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Do you have 3 axolotl's in that tank or am I just seeing things!!
My golden axolotl looked like yours with its big gill's until some thing happend and thy srunk!! Oh and did it take very long to make that rock cave , i dident no that there was a black aquarium silicone!!


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cynthia

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Daniel - Yes I have 3 axolotls (Blingbling, Echo and Jude).

It took 2 or 3 hours to make the cave. Hardest part was trying to cut the pot in half. Yep there is black aquarium silicone. It is made by All Glass. They use it to make the black trim tanks. It covers the orange of the pots very nicely.

I am working on their PVC caves next. I am going to stick some larger rocks to them to build them up a bit and try and make them not look so much like PVC fittings.
 
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kim

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Very Nice Cynthia, Ive been waiting a while to see your tank
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scarlet

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have u had trouble with your 3 being dominant over each other??
 
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cynthia

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Scarlet - Thanks, I copied Kim
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So far I haven't had any problems keeping the 3 of them together. They are all about the same age and were kept in separate containers until they were about 5 inches long.
 
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lauren

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What kind of filter do you use, Cynthia? Your axies have such big gills!
 
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cynthia

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Lauren - it is an external fluval 204. You can see the pill bottle drilled full of holes I use as a baffle in the picture of the entire tank (orange pill bottle on the right).

The axolotls I had back in the late 80's had similar sized fluffy gills, but did not have the same kind of filter. They had a penquin 160, on a 55 gallon tank.
 
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cynthia

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I have finished their pvc caves... now they look like pvc pipe covered in rocks :| lol

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I think when I have more time I will cover the inside of the white one with gravel... that might help.
 
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