FlyingFishKeeper Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 (edited) Best Breeding Setup - Nerm Week 2022 Hello everyone! This is the thread for the "Best Breeding Setup" aquascape competition, please glance over this post before making your entry. Best Breeding Setup | 2022 NERM Week Fish Photo Comps Explanation This is the best aquarium in terms of appearance AND function. The submitted tank/body of water must have had aquatic life bred in it at one point. Formatting Please submit one picture of the full setup. You may include up to 3 separate files that highlight certain characteristics of your setup. Best Breeding Setup Rules and Guidelines: Stay within the guidelines of the forum. The container must be your own. The container must be a suitable environment for your animals. Invalid Posts: If your post does not comply with our rules/ guidelines you will be private messaged for the post to be fixed. If the post has not been fixed by Wednesday at noon, your post becomes invalid. Any members post thats does not comply with our rules/guidelines will receive a private message. Best of luck to all! Edited July 13, 2022 by FlyingFishKeeper Corrected the Rules: ALL aquariums that have had breeding occur are permitted. Apologies, and thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Mollusk Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 This is my 20 long Hobbit Snursery that has bred oodles of mystery snails and is now host to baby panda cory cats (the blue velvet shrimp has since berried, so I guess there's something going right in here 😆) Hardscape is a moss-covered resin hobbit house, river rocks (some moss-covered), and mopani driftwood. Substrate is gravel and crushed coral. The breeder box for the mystery snails has just been removed and the snaibies moved to the tank itself, but here's mom inspecting it. Here's a baby cory hiding under a mossy rock. Plants are assorted mosses, java fern, anubias, Cryptocoryne undulata,and Amazon swords. I've got a HOB and a large sponge filter and heater to keep everybody happy and comfy. This is a baby cory and baby snail eating repashy off the driftwood. Thanks for looking! 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 This is my platy breeding setup! I’ve been using it for almost a year and have raised hundreds of babies from it. I believe it would work for any livebearer. The basic idea is that there are two parent compartments and one central baby compartment, all separated by matten filters. Air powered “fry slurpers” purchased on eBay transfer fry from the parent compartments to the central one. Plenty of live plants as well as a large pothos help keep the nitrates down, since I must feed the babies lots of small foods that can easily get stuck in the filters. (Live baby brine work best, since they actively swim out if the filters towards the light.) Each compartment has its own air stone to promote circulation and oxygenation. As you can (barely) see above, the slurpers have tubes with small holes at one end that only fry will fit through. Once the fry swim inside, they’re lifted up through the tube and deposited on the other side of the filter. I try to encourage the females to release their fry next to the slurpers by providing them plenty of cover in the form of live plants. I wanted to keep the slurpers relatively short because the longer the rise of the slurper, the less slurpy it is. Tall ceramic pots let me accomplish this. Here’s a picture of the setup before plants and fish, which gives you a better visual of the basic structure. The pots contain garden soil, sand, and limestone gravel, which helps keep the GH up in my soft water. Each pot has a mesh tube in its center to let water through and prevent anaerobic pockets from forming. Thanks for reading! 6 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 @Hobbit I’m ORD BUT AS SOON AS I GET THEM BACK 😍😍😍😍. This is such a unique and well thought out design. It allows for such minimal intervention. Simply amazing. Though I don’t need a setup like this I so want to set one up just so I can say “I have a FRY SLURPER” 😍😍😍 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Aww thank you @Guppysnail!! I got the idea from something @Brandy mentioned in a very old thread, as well as something Cory mentioned in a live stream. I wish I could remember what the fry slurpers were actually called, but whatever it was, I like “fry slurper” better. 😄 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 On 7/13/2022 at 3:35 AM, Darth Mollusk said: YEP. That's 5 star breeding rock right there! Would be so nice to have some pieces of slate or such like this to drop into tanks. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted July 14, 2022 Share Posted July 14, 2022 On 7/13/2022 at 6:35 AM, Darth Mollusk said: This is my 20 long Hobbit Snursery Your moss game is on point! As Hobbit, I approve of this Hobbit Snursery. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingFishKeeper Posted July 18, 2022 Author Share Posted July 18, 2022 Hello everyone! The winner of 2022's Best Breeding Setup competition is @Hobbit, with 10 votes. Happy Summer to all! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Congratulations @Hobbit! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Congrats to everyone who participated. Nice work @Hobbit! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atitagain Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Congratulations @Hobbit such an interesting setup. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minanora Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Congratulations @Hobbit! One of my favorite breeding tanks I've seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chick-In-Of-TheSea Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 (edited) @Hobbit that fry slurper is genius. And the fish being slurped are.... slurpees? LOL Edited July 18, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea wit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbit Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Thanks everyone! I’m honored!! I still wish I had moss like @Darth Mollusk, but I guess the moss is always greener on the other side. Thanks to @FlyingFishKeeper for running this contest! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeniseMartinez Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 (edited) Congrats. I love it. :) Spoiler Thank you all for showing such a great breeding setup. I also like to see such great things. Along with watching these things, I also do essay writing and I have learned Essay writing from this website. https://writinguniverse.com/free-essay-examples/lord-of-the-flies/ "lord of the flies'' The subject is an endeavor to follow the abandons of human nature. The ethical is that the shape of a society must depend on the moral nature of the person and not on any political framework be that as it may clearly coherent or respectable. If you are interested in writing Essay writing and novels so visit our website. Edited August 27, 2022 by DeniseMartinez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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