My initial 3D printed design just finished took a few days of printing and a few weeks of designing printing in PETG filament. I havent yet got the design programs down just yet so this was printed and designed with Bambu-labs app and an A1 printer. Yup now im hooked @Lowells Fish Lab
It is four parts to start the base ring with a hole for a hose to go through
The collector a shallow bowl that has a hole in the center and falls into the chamber the slip fits into.
the cave floor that sits +/- 1/4 inch above the bowl and uses an x poat to center itself on the hole
the cave itself that slips on the top of the collector with a slight overlap down over the outside of the bowl and base by about 1/2". Looks a bit like a puffer cave tophat 🙂
lots of testing with pellets and flow to follow. The initial plan is to try pao fangi then pao baileyi in this. I also will print a redesign the bowl that makes that lip a vertical wall so that the top slides over and the eggs have only one place to go the bowl below