Originally posted by Pam
We gave up on having plants in the aquariums because they like to dig them up! LOL! Right now he has lots of layers of rocks (to make them feel at home) and to provide hiding places as well for any new ones that get introduced.
Just an idea for the plants, this is what we did, the plants are held down with the slate rock. There's no digging them up now. Once you put pounds and pounds of slate rock on top of them, they are not going anywhere.

Our 75 gal is piled end to end and top with slate rock, giving so many hidding places that sometimes there are days before we see some of our guys. And the Slate rock, makes for great hidding places, espically when you have babies being born. Cause as you know, once babies are born, they become food.

BTW: my husband was the cichlid guy, also, in our house for years, but somehow over the last few years they have become mine. Men seem to have a thing for cichlids, I guess. I think it's the tude of a cichlid that does it for them. LOL