I built this, we just reversed the set up so that the adults were on the outside can swim in and out as needed. Two successful fry batches so far, the pond sails love it too. Thank you for this video!
My mom has been making stuff with these items for 50+ years. I even made stuff as a kid. This is such a great idea. So simple. So cheap. Brilliant. Ty for all the education co-op provides!
For everyone looking to purchase this mesh: It is called plastic canvas. The number represents holes per inch. You can thank me by taking some of my guppies. PLEASE.
I am a beginner guppy breeder and this is by far the best method I've seen while researching. it allows you to breed without using a bunch of tanks and you don't have to stress the females my netting them multiple time during her pregnancy. thanks for the video ☺
+Aquarium Co-Op No problem Corey. You put out great videos with great advice backed by years of experience. As long as you keep posting videos, i will be watching and sharing them. Take care bud
I just made this last week because I could see that my guppies where pregnant. I placed it in my 60 gallon tank and hoped for the best. Well, today I saw one giving birth and even though only one little guy (that I can see) has made his way into the trap, it worked! He's gone in and out of it a little bit but already knows he's safe in there. thanks for the great tutorial!
I legit just brought home two mollies and they were both pregnant!! I’m so overwhelmed lmao so many guppies they’re sooooo cute!!!!!!! Idk what to do!!!! Everything is closed right now!!! I can’t even get these supplies!
Plastic canvas is great! I use the cylinders for guppy breeding, separating small flowerhorns, and separating clownfish for pairing, the smaller holed stuff is great for dividers with some report cover edging as an edge brace
as an avid knitter crocheter and crafter i find it hilarious to watch you work with yarn ^.^ but this is a good idea. would they still be able to get in/out with java moss growing on it?
+Aquarium Co-Op have you tried it with all out side so they can go in for safety? That's what I want to try I just want to make sure it works that way so I don't loose babies.
No matter which way you do it, you can lose some babies, cause not all will learn to go through the mesh. That being said it does raise quite a few of them so it's one of the best methods.
This gave me an idea for using this as a kind of permanent kind of decoration. Would maybe a 3 inch tall pill box with a cap on the top and bottom covered in java moss and pile stones make a good enough fry shelter? I want to make a good hiding spot for fry but I also want to keep it in a display tank. Guess it's a try and see thing :)
#5 mesh can be ordered online from Michael's Crafts. On a different note, did you get your mesh numbers correct? It seemed confusing. Great idea though. I am trying it with #5 mesh. #5 means there are 5 holes per inch. #7 means 7 holes per inch.
Great idea. My goodeid trio had some fry yesterday (biggest I've seen in person) and I think my male may have eaten a few during the night they were born. I might try this since my other female is still pregnant.
Thank you so much for this video! It's the first time I've ever seen a mesh cage like that; what a cool idea! :D Definitely gonna be utilizing this soon. I witnessed GuppyDad grabbing a baby today and that is... not ideal. XD
BTW, great videos..... I just found and subscribed to your channel a couple weeks ago. Love all of your work. I've got a couple saltwater systems in my house but I started with freshies. I even still keep a 20 gal long planted freshie tank.
I raise guppies for feeder fish as food for my baby common snapping turtle. And before you comment " oh that's cruel you can just feed him pellets" you try taking pills every day for your daily meal. If they do it in the wild. It's safe for them.
+DankMeme Co. Why would that be cruel? snapping turtles lure fish and are made to eat prey like that. Great source of natural calcium for shell growth etc.
I too keep things like that and I'm really glad to hear another hobbyist do it the right way! This is the snowflake generation and I guess nature's design is cruel and everything should be eating genetically modified fake foods? Good for you man!!
Can someone answer my question. If using #7 canvas (1/7 inch hole size, 3.6mm square), will the newborn molly/platy fry be able to swim through? I want to build a refuge for the fry cuz my molly fish has been pregnant for months, it must been something wrong. Thanks.
once the eggs are laid in the spawning mop, do you just move the mop to the outside of the cage and then add a new mop inside? or what are the mops on the outside for?
I know this is a really old video, but I'd like to know if it's okay if the acrylic yarn is starting to smell. I actually took it out while it was wet and it has been smelling funky for hours. The breeder fry trap works really well! Thanks! Would appreciate any kind of feedback.
Can you put a list of the supplies in the description including the gauges of the needles and the size of the mesh holes and the sheet size need for the mesh square and circle? I'm currently using 10 gallon tanks, would one of these finished fry savers fit in a ten?
+heatherwanderer777 The way I built mine it would stick out of the top of a 10 gallon. But you'd just cut it down. I'll add the supplies list to the description.
Do you have some special treatment for female after she gave birth ? I have only one adult male and one female. And the male is not letting her go all the time. usually chase her and never let her to rest. So my wife I put the male into breeding cage for a while. Is that harmful for the male? Does the female need to rest for a couple of days after giving birth ?
why not do a video series, how we used to do it in the old day days. be interesting. a lot out of the seasoned vintage fish hobbists do not use you tube, so it be cool to bring some of the tried and true techniques together in a series
+1deaver --- I've had several people suggest I do some youtube videos because I am learning the new stuff but I left the hobby in 1987 because of a job that required constant moves. So I only know the old way. That's why I love guys like Corey. I learn so much. Some of the local folk and a couple of RU-vid guys said I should do youtube, so I'm going to. I started setting it up as oldschoolfishguy. It will be much smaller volume than Corey and you'll still want to be on this one and some others.
+SevernRunAquatics I'm not sure honestly as I edit video outside of youtube. I'm sure there has got to be a video tutorial of it if you were to type it into youtube.
I use wondershare filmora, that being said I don't do any time lapse stuff. I generally just skip around as I tend to skip time lapse stuff myself in videos.
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+Anal “Negro” Avocado you could also use java moss with this. People use the same screen to make moss walls in their tanks. Just tie moss to the cage instead of the spawning mops, and put big bunches in the cage and around it.
I just got some pregnant guppies but my tank has only been set up new for one wk, one guppy is very fat very pregnant I can see that big dark spot near end of her tail, why is she not giving birth yet?
Being so big how would the fry know to swim out of the canvas? Won't a lot of them stay inside and get eaten? I mean, in a breeder box, the fry are dropped into a safe compartment. In this setup, don't they have a high chance staying inside with the parents and get eaten?
It would be unlikely they aren't breeding. It is probably a problem of keeping the fry alive. Do you have intakes covers over your filters, ample cover, and no other fisht hat are eating babies?
+Aquarium Co-Op thanks! I have a tank with three baby marbles crayfish (the true clone kind), about an inch long, and im looking into putting endler guppies in with them. As they grow up theyll be the worst for my plants, but they arent hunters like clarkiis so well see how that works out :) Do you have any experience with crayfish? The clones seem to go for a lot and produce nice quantities of offspring that can be fed to oscars,... Clarkiis are beautiful, but since someone kind of dumped the marbles on me i guess im stuck till my hubby allows a second tank
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