I currently breed fancy guppies and halfmoon bettas. I am always trying out new items and techniques. I gave the Hagen Net Breeder a few tries and a few buys. Breeding the bettas in it was not at all a good idea as they build a bubble nest and the flowing water from the tank would disturb it. For the guppies this seemed like quit a great invention. It only cost me $2.99 at Petco and you can move the fish into the net without moving them to another temperature of water. The first one I broke on accident. I did not realize how fragile the plastic frame was. It comes with a top, bottom, four posts and the mesh. Put one post in each corner, secure the top and bottom to the posts, pull the mesh on, tie and hang on the inside of your tank.
I placed one of my pregnant female guppies into this device a few days before she was to give birth. She hated it! The area was too small for her and she swam back and forth for the first day. I did not want to take her out of it until she gave birth for fear she would abort her young.
Now, the time came for the babies to be born. What a great idea I thought at first. You can scoop the female back out, leave her in the same tank with her babies and watch them grow. Wrong! The babies were getting stuck under the mesh where it meets at the plastic frame. Other guppies were coming up and picking on the babies too. I do not think this is and ideal idea for breeding fish. The best thing to hold in it would be a wounded fish, the same size as the other fish in the tank. I now have new ways of going about housing my pregnant guppies. I have a tank with dividers, so the water temperature is still the same throughout. I can still move her within the same tank and no more picking on the babies or them getting stuck.
Marina Fine Mesh Fish Net Breeder #10934 Hagen Net Breeder Fine Mesh allows free-flowing water movement, yet isolates sick, weak or pregnant fish. - F...More at PetMountain.com
Marina Fine Mesh Fish Net Breeder #10934Hagen Net Breeder Fine Mesh allows free-flowing water movement, yet isolates sick, weak or pregnant fish. - Fi...More at PetMountain.com
Fantastic prices with ease & c...(Stock status: N/A)
Netting allows free flow of water Keeps oxygen level up Ideal isolation chamber for sick or weak fish Floating safety chamber for pregnant liveb...More at Amazon Marketplace
Epinions.com periodically updates pricing and product information from third-party sources, so some information may be slightly out-of-date. You should confirm all information before relying on it.
- Add to My Yahoo!: 
- Add to Google Homepage: 
© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc.