Comment by Tupiekit on 06/09/2019 at 16:21 UTC

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I know what you mean about worrying about fish being trapped, but without trying to sound like an asshole, if you build it right you dont have to worry about fish getting trapped by rocks.

Ive noticed alot of people, when they put rocks in, they dont really have shelves of any kind, that the rocks look like they were just dumped there, or that the rocks arent supported. If you build shelves and have the rocks supporting eachother then youll never have problems with them falling on fish or not. Plus the way you lock the rocks in is by shoving gravel in between every nook and crany, this supports the rocks but also can stop fish from going into cracks.

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Comment by lesismore2000 at 07/09/2019 at 18:18 UTC

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Eh we like the cracks. I used to have them filled but changed it. We have had one fish stuck in 5 years so I can live with that. Now if I had some prize koi it would be different. .35 goldfish are great but we don’t worry as much about them. The fish actually hide in some of the bigger caverns in the winter.