DIY fish cave

[lachie1998]

Hi Guys

I came up with this little cave thing for my female red dragon to hide from the male when he gets agro.

1. Buy a pot, the pot i used is 23cm across.

2. Soak the pot in water for 5 minutes to soften the pot.

3. Use a pencil to mark how big you want your entrance to be.

4. Get a hack saw and cut your marked lines.

5. Use a hole saw to finish off the entrance, the hole saw will make a arch at the top of the entrance.

6. File off the edges so there will be no harm done to your beloved flowernorn.

Here is the finshed product:

It is big enought for the female to fit in but not the male so she can escape from him if need be.

Cheers Lachie

[Dean]

coll idea mate, so many interesting and different ways to do things with DIY. i use do do the exact same thing for my bristle nose when i had them years back.

[blindfisherman]

How did you find it on the saw blade?

I cut a couple in half to make BN caves and found that after each pot the saw was pretty much done.

[Dean]

a 4 inch grinder with diamond blade worked for me best and fastest lol i never tried the hacksaw way as im to lazy :)

[blindfisherman]

a 4 inch grinder with diamond blade worked for me best and fastest lol i never tried the hacksaw way as im to lazy :)

I tried the dremel and ran through about 10 discs on that too

Eventually resorted to cracking them with a cold chisel and using a belt sander to flatten them out

[Dean]

the dremel are only good for little cuts and Handy man stuff. the dimond blades on the 4 inch greinder are made for cutting tiles and stone etc very easy and fast. those dremel blades cost a small fortune :) could buy a cheap grinder and blade from bunnings for the price of 10.

[blindfisherman]

I'm tempted to buy a tile saw there are cheapo ones for <$150 figure it would pay off itself pretty quick.

-Sorry for hijacking your thread Lachie - I'm off to to go watch a beer pong tournament so I wont annoy anyone any more tonight

[lachie1998]

-Sorry for hijacking your thread Lachie - I'm off to to go watch a beer pong tournament so I wont annoy anyone any more tonight

Its fine, these are very good questions.

:)