After my last spawn, where the female ate 90% of the eggs because I couldn't see them under the foam cup, I decided to see if a male would still build a nest under the cup if the top part of it was cut away, therefore making a kind of viewing window so you can tell when there are eggs under there easier and my male did. Obviosuly I had to have the female close to motivate him to build one but what I didn't count on was her deciding she wanted to spawn and jumping over into his tank so now I have another load of eggs and am still raising 9 of the nearly 1 month old previous spawn.
Attached is a picture of my cup with a view.
The way I did it was by just cutting the cup in half normally then using a craft knife to carefull cut the top section off.
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~60L Planted Community Tank~
Plants: 1 x Elodea
Fish: 3 Month old guppy fry, mixed sex, 4 M & 3 F guppies, 1 x 10m old M DC Fry
~Male Bettas:~
Robin - HM or Delta CT
Cyborg & Slade DC Fry
Braedan - CT & Proud Daddy
~Female Bettas~
Starbuck & Scarlet CT Girls
190L (50G) Planted Tank
Plants: 3 x Jungle Val, 1 x Ludwidgia
Fish: 6 x Harlequin Rasboras, 6 Black, 5 glowlight & 12 Neon tetras, 2 Common Pleco's
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