Breeding

[leighann]

well i tried putting the stryofoam cup in my tank and it worked, i woke up this morning to find a newly built bubblenest!!!

 

[Chuka1212]

What does a stryofoam cup do to stimulate the bubblenest building? I haven't heard of it.

 

[K.J.]

It provides a good surface for the male to BN on, helps keep it stable and protected, etc. It doesn't really do anything to sexually encourage it, most males are just lazy and won't bother making a bubblenest that pops because it has nothing to rest on.

 

[girl4God81]

well i tried putting the stryofoam cup in my tank and it worked, i woke up this morning to find a newly built bubblenest!!!

Yay! I'm so glad it worked! I want to try the same, but what keeps the cup from sinking? If you float it sideways doesn't it fill with water and just sink?

 

[K.J.]

well i tried putting the stryofoam cup in my tank and it worked, i woke up this morning to find a newly built bubblenest!!!

Yay! I'm so glad it worked! I want to try the same, but what keeps the cup from sinking? If you float it sideways doesn't it fill with water and just sink?

You cut in in half so it's facing Horizontally, but chop of the botton half.... so if you look at it from the front, it looks like an upside down U? I don't know if that makes sense. Also, you tape it to a corner to keep it from drifting away.

 

[girl4God81]

thank you for the explanation but maybe it's because I'm blonde...I'm not quite understanding...

if the cup is sitting on the table, do you cut it horizontally, as in cut the top part off, of do you cut it from top to bottom?

if it's horizontally then i'm assuming you cut the bottom off (like you already stated) and float it..but then it would look like a big O shape, so then do you cut it again?

if it's vertical, the you cut it from top to bottom and cut the bottom off ( then float it on top where it sort of looks like a cave shape? or as you said, like an upside down U? if that's the case then where is there a place to make bubbles, or does he make them under the cave, in the open space.

k, i am probably being way too complicated...just want to do it right.

 

[dmarie04]

thank you for the explanation but maybe it's because I'm blonde...I'm not quite understanding...

if the cup is sitting on the table, do you cut it horizontally, as in cut the top part off, of do you cut it from top to bottom?

if it's horizontally then i'm assuming you cut the bottom off (like you already stated) and float it..but then it would look like a big O shape, so then do you cut it again?

if it's vertical, the you cut it from top to bottom and cut the bottom off ( then float it on top where it sort of looks like a cave shape? or as you said, like an upside down U? if that's the case then where is there a place to make bubbles, or does he make them under the cave, in the open space.

k, i am probably being way too complicated...just want to do it right.

If the cup is sitting on the table then you would cut from top to bottom. Then take one half, turn it on it's side and float it in the water. The male then makes his bubble nest under the floating cup. Any old peice of styrofoam will work, though. I cut a section out of a foam plate.

 

[Jaded12]

A square chunck of Styrofoam works just as well, maybe even better, its keeps the bubbles insulated better then the cup. The bubbles tend to pop when the air temp in the tank is cooler then the temp of the water. The block of Styrofoam helps keep the top of the bubbles closer to the temp of the water then the open cup. On that note its a good idea when breeding to have 2 thermometers in the tank, one to measure water temp, and the other to measure air temp.