I saw this quite some time ago, excellent adaptation of my system. One of my favorite parts of the hobby is to inspire others to experiment and create. Then I in return can learn tips and tricks from them. Nice job!
I love seeing you adapt all these coop and Dean ideas and proving that anyone can pull it off. I’m gonna be studying these videos religiously when it’s time to build my fish room and breeding system
There seems to be a craze of sorts for these systems? I do t see the great fascination over the Marina hang on boxes that are simple to add whenever, clean, etc.?? Great video, I like your passionate creativity with words.. cheers!
I call this system the MBD Fry System. Master Breeder Dean is a genius, I agree. I want to thank you for taking the time to explain the plumbing. Nobody ever does but I am no plumber and I have to get this set up soon. I have Cory fry, guppy fry, and Angel fry going very old school and it’s stressing me out. You made this very easy to follow. Again, thank you so much ❤️❤️
Lively video, very mice , clear and aqurate explanation. What about the filters ? It ll be part 2 to shiw the filters in the same details ? Thank you very much !
I love that you gear this towards adult AND teens/kids. too often fish care videos are geared 100% towards adults, making it unfriendly and unmotivating for children, who really could learn a lot from stuff like this. Thank you!
Great video. Like the step by step guide on how to build it. I will most likely build this system when I have my fish room up and running. Thanks for sharing.
I just built my own after seeing Dean's video, went as planned and as easy as you said, my issue was the water pump. I bought a small pump off amazon, with the included adapter to 1/4" tubing. works great and waiting for the next batch of fry to try.
Glad you found success! After using the 1/4” tubing for a while I found a couple issues with keeping proper flow. I have another video showing adapting to a 1/2” pvc and using metal air valves. Once I made that switch I did not have any problems. The 1/4” tubing is great and hope it works well for you
Thank you for Sharing. It is an excellent system and I would love to give it a try. I am not a professional breeder so will probably just create one tray and place it on top of my aquarium when my goldfish next spawn.
If you put sand in the hard acrylic tubing and move the lighter or heat gun , you can form the tubing better and helps prevent breaking and pinching. Watercool pc builders have used this method for years.
FYI...Those nuts you got for the bolts that have the white plastic inside the nut are purposely suppose to be hard to get them started on the bolt because those are called lock nuts. They have to be put on by hand as far as you can then you have to use a wrench or socket to tighten them up as far as you want them tightened and at that point that you stop tightening them, they will not move because you have force threaded the white plastic inside the nut, thus locking the nut in place. That is why they are so hard to get started on the bolt.
Remember you can adapt it to fit your needs. If you have not see the second video about this system I would suggest watching that as well. I changed out the water lines and had better success
Great video! I had one of these systems running when I had my fish room, and I forgot to use the stainless steel screws, and lo and behold, a month after setting it up I had to pull out the silicone to coat the screws!
Homedepot sells these fittings under "john guest"-you can get the push connect to 1/2" thread for a direct fit to PVC pipe. They are also a quality fitting, we use in car washes for chemical feeds.
@@WeldonTanks they are if you buy them individually, but if you buy a 10 pack its more reasonable, they also have more of a selection. I use them for all kinda stuff, even use them on the marina boxes to get rid of air and just run a couple boxes off a powerhead
Good to know, I will have to check again. Last time I checked my local Home Depot was only selling them individually, even online I was unable to find packs.
I think I'd try to use a thin water stream under pressure to negate the need for an air stone. If it is a thin stream, and the water is filtered so it's clean, it shouldn't have enough mass to strongly penetrate the water and harm fry but it will cause aeration. Just an idea for those of us without a central/large air pump. This looks like a great setup exactly as you made it, good work!
Air stone can be completely optional in this matter. And if you wanted to add an air stone and even had this on a smaller scale you could use a stand alone small air pump.
Hey! I’m totally new to fish breeding , (aside from my tiger endlers which I let breed and grow out in the same tank), but my CPD tank surprised me. The first batch got eaten, so now I’m determined to have a separate grow out. I did a water change yesterday and found the second round of fry so I’ve removed them and am trying to get this type of set up going. Thanks for being thorough.
So cool I know what I’m gonna be working on this weekend thanks for the idea and giving detailed instructions on how to do it this will definitely upgrade my fish room
This was a good one, I am about 1 year into the hobby, almost retired, I wanna grow fry and sell or give away, this looks so easy to build. I have enough tanks MTS.. lol, so I can use one to build. What’s running the air, and standard pump or do have a bigger one to run all your tanks
Hi great setup. Now how do you prevent life food for your fry like vinagre eals swimming or rinsing out. And how dou you keep the trays clean. Great stuff. Martin the Netherlands
Definitely interested in making something like this in the future, thanks for taking the time to make this and show us! Aquarium co op is now charging us to see Dean build this fry rack :(
Not necessarily. There have been plenty of videos showing deans system in depth. I figured out how to make it without the members only video. Glad you found it useful information. Just remember there are numerous ways to build this and make it what you need it to be
i have pretty much the same system but i use a hang on the back filter on the main tank and use airline hose to make a siphon from it into the tub and i use a valve to adjust the flow. Now im working on one where the breeding tank itself has a divider and the eggs get sucked into the back side of the tank, the real trick is figuring out how get an auto dosing system to inject food into the fry side several times a day.
So...nothing actually lol. That is my Yellow Zebra Pleco tank but the light I was using had a really bad reflection on that tank so I used the bags to stop that
@@WeldonTanks I have seen his videos. We have 50 tanks all together and most of them are in our fish room. We breed shell dwellers and the spawns are constant right now and I'm running out of space for new small fry. So I may adopt something like this. I apreciate you making this video! :)
@@WeldonTanks We are in ohio north of Columbus. we have some videos of our fish room on our channel. Working on getting more tank by tank in detail videos. It can be tons of work But tons of fun too. Each tank is not a separate species. I may have 4 or 5 tanks Just for one type.
Hi I live in the u.k I can’t seem to find these boxes anywhere looked on eBay and Amazon I want the same size boxes as you used in your video any help would be great thanks. Tony
Do you need an airstone in each tray? Or, since the water being pumped into the trays agitates the surface, could you just install 1 decent sized sponge filter in the main tank to oxygenate the water?
The air stone in each tray is added security to my mind, I would say it is not necessary. I was going to use sponge filters in the tank as the main filtration but after I changed some things in the fish room decided on the internal filter.
I have a similar system for a killi breeding cabinet and I had high hopes for ziss air valves (my favorite) but they all leak water although less than any other air valve I tried.
@@WeldonTanks no. It's inline through 1/4 inch tube that I drip water through with only the pressure if gravity and they leak through the thread which surprised me giving how tight the thread fit.
The filter is helping control nitrate levels and keep debri off the bottom of the tank. In this set up it was connected to the auto water change system I had which was doing daily water changes
I’m still trying to find a way to make this system vertical, to like, stack breeder boxes on top of each other 5 boxes High, and have them run water into each other, still can’t figure it out xD
Use a pump to push it up to the top and then plumb each one to overflow to the next. Hardest part is going to be stacking them. Wood frame would probably do the trick.
Because this entire system is a DIY method I would say you would need to make one. Now saying that there may be containers with lids you could modify but the containers I used did not come with lids.
Did you ever consider any other options for plastic containers for your fry rack? Currently, I am floating all of my fry in old cafeteria serving containers on the water surface and running air stones to them. I have been contemplating using the sterile plastic storage boxes but don't know what their longevity would be in the system. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Based on what I could find and for the price I briefly considered other options. I thought about using the sterilte(?) plastic containers but found they bow with the water weight. These co trainers are rigid that they with stand that and give a cleaner look in my opinion.
I got into hydroponics and fish breeding at the same time... Every fish tank has some plants, and all the aquaponics systems contain breeding fish. Perfect marriage of two hobbies.
