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Your cart is empty.As an automatic circulating nursery, the Penn Plax Aqua Nursery and Hatchery will keep your baby fish safe and healthy in a gentle way. This innovative breeding box Nursery draws new-born fry through a tube from the maternity section into the nursery section keeping them separate, alive and healthy. The nursery section may be lifted out separate from the maternity section and placed in other locations.The Aqua-Nursery has a constant circulation eliminating stagnant water, as well as adjustable hangers and removable top covers.Breeding your own fish is fascinating and educational, not to mention cheaper. Now it's easier and safer too.
scott boggs
2025-08-30 16:03:03
This thing really works. Once you attach it to an airline tube, it really does draw the fry down and into the other chamber. I left a guppy in it one night when I noticed her in labor and woke up the next morning to find the small chamber full of fry. My next attempt will be with a cauliflower sabertail (swordtail) that is VERY valuable.The side chamber doesn't like to sit well though. And most of that is because the tube connecting the two chambers is often too long, leaving the side chamber too far out. So you'll want to cut that tube down a bit so the side chamber sits properly. The lid on the larger chamber also needs to be SECURELY in place, or the fish can freak out, bump it, and knock it off.My only real problem with this (and with many breeder "traps") is that they are so small. There isn't enough room for the poor females to swim around. Mollies and swordtails basically have to stay still the entire time they are in there. So if you don't know *when* they got pregnant, you probably have to leave them in there for days or weeks - or hope you catch them when they first start going into labor. There needs to be a larger version, or perhaps several V-shaped traps can be attached together to fit a particular tank (like a 10-gallon) so the adults have the top of the tank and the fry slip through to the bottom.Aside from the size, this is definitely an efficient way to save the fry of very valuable fish. I'm sure it would work for scattering egglayers too (like tetras and danios) but I haven't tried it yet.
Beryl Roberts
2025-08-23 13:36:03
I was a bit skeptical given some of the reviews, but this thing worked perfectly for me. Everything fit together snugly--no rubber bands needed!The only tiny hurdle was that the tube that moves the fry from the main chamber to the side one was indeed at little too long, causing it to kink. Trimmed off the extra quarter of an inch with regular scissors in about thirty seconds. I'd rather it be a little too long than not reach across. And of course watch out for back flow to the air pump since this is likely to be sitting higher up. I put in a check valve just in case and had no problem.I have the tiniest air pump money can buy and the suction was almost perfect. The fry were immediately drawn below the green layer where momma couldn't get at them. One or two made the full journey right away and more a bit later. They have to get right up to the mouth of the tube for the current to be too strong for them to fight, but it was easy enough to shoo the rest through once momma was out, and they were perfectly safe the whole time so I was very happy.This design is excellent. The slits that let water in are very thin, much smaller than they look in the picture because they are tapered from outside to in to encourage flow. This nursery gets excellent circulation and I can't picture any fry escaping.The side chamber is easy to remove--much easier than trying to net a bunch of tiny endler fry, and way less stressful for them! It's been two weeks and I've had zero mortaliy, so this product certainly did it's job.In conclusion, this nursery is a bit of a precision instrument compared to others, but with a little fiddling (almost none in my case) it does a great job ensuring the health and safety of your fry! Beats a box with holes and eagle eyeing your pregnant fish in my book.
Michael
2025-08-06 16:27:32
The actual nursery does not float and all the parts that shouldn’t float do. Nothing stays clipped together. Maybe thought I could salvage it and make it into something different but turns out it’s just a $20 piece of junk.
Customer
2025-08-05 13:06:58
Oh man it's so frustrating to try to use. A slight bump and either the nursery part goes floating across the tank, or the large sections lid floats away, or the whole thing slides down too deep into the tank. It's an excellent idea but needs some troubleshooting to make it more functional. Better hangers/able to use suction cups (even better!), lids that stay on, and sections that don't come apart when bumped.
Shane Stout
2025-07-06 15:07:05
assembly , easy.set up in tank, not so easy. we had to buy large aquarium rock to keep the thing from floating to the top of the tank, instead of metal clips it needs heavy duty suction cups included. the insert for the mother is difficult to keep in place and tends to want to float up until the water is settled completely. The flow through to the fry container is lackluster it pulls some fry through but a large portion get caught under the mother.we added stones and gravel to the inside of the fry collector to keep the thing weighted down air bubbles make that end rise up.we place stones on the top of the entire assembled unit to keep it under water because as mentioned before , it really should have some additional suction cups added to it, not JUST clips.the concept is great, and in function we've lost about 1/3rd of our fry due to mom havin a snack while 2/3 manage to swim close enough to the tube to get pulled through.not enough ventilation for the flow to work properly i think.some wiggling and adjustments to lids are needed to get them in place and stones/weights are needed to hold the lids on once placed and to help keep the unit submerged.
Krista
2025-06-07 11:21:25
I live this! I put my platies in it just when I think they are going to give birth. The babies are dropped threw the slit in the bottom and then their sucked up to what I like to call the birthing room lol would highly recommend this, I never realized how many babies pladies have!
Alejandro Cano
2025-05-09 17:09:46
Estoy feliz con la compra
DR
2025-04-12 14:40:08
Wirkt etwas billig, da relativ dünnes PlastikAnsonsten ganz gut
Bo Nilsson
2025-02-21 15:57:19
Ganska ömtålig hårdplast som är mindre än man tror.
Braibant
2024-12-08 16:50:19
Chercher beaucoup les pattes de maintien mal lu le papier
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