Craft Tom - Tominaga-Oscar - ATO1198 Continuous Hatch N Feeder Brine Shrimp Corral and Hatchery

One suction cup, not enough

I've always liked other products from Tom, so I though I would give this a try. Unfortunately, this hatchery is only attached with a single suction cup (and its a pretty poor attempt at a suction cup as well). This has been in my tank for about 10 hours, and the suction cup has released 3 times spreading 1000s of unhatched eggs into the aquarium. It's also rather large.. say roughly 8 inches...
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I've always liked other products from Tom, so I though I would give this a try. Unfortunately, this hatchery is only attached with a single suction cup (and its a pretty poor attempt at a suction cup as well). This has been in my tank for about 10 hours, and the suction cup has released 3 times spreading 1000s of unhatched eggs into the aquarium. It's also rather large.. say roughly 8 inches tall. It looks pretty ridiculous in a small aquarium. Hatching outside the aquarium seems simpler than trying to get this to work right.

By Dave on PetStore.com - May 9, 2013

kinda works

Got this to feed my wrasses live brine as a treat, the first time I got it and tried to place it, the suction cup bracket broke, and Marine Depot quickly sent me a new hatchery no questions asked (LOVE marine depot) the second time I tried to place it, the suction cup bracket would hold, but very unstable in tank, I ended up rigging it with a old large magfloat held by fishline, and that way I...
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Got this to feed my wrasses live brine as a treat, the first time I got it and tried to place it, the suction cup bracket broke, and Marine Depot quickly sent me a new hatchery no questions asked (LOVE marine depot) the second time I tried to place it, the suction cup bracket would hold, but very unstable in tank, I ended up rigging it with a old large magfloat held by fishline, and that way I could position it anywhere the magnet would hold (That worked great, I may glue the magnet in place) much more stable than the suction cup thing. Set it up, and the eggs hatched fine, but only a few of the baby brine came out in comparison of the amount still in the main chamber (I tried with the air pump on and off) the baby brine go up to the top of the main chamber because they like the tank lights and do not go down to the bottom so they can go thru the escape port. Unfortunately, the way I have it set, there is no way to shine a light thru the escape port and try to lure the brine out. Again, I may have to rig it. I am thinking to darkening the main chamber somehow, such with black tights/stockings (the poly type shouldn't degrade in the tank}or find a marine safe paint, so until I figure it out, I have been suctioning the little buggers out and putting them in the tank, but then, I could have done that for free with a glass jar and a turkey baster ;p. One other thing, be careful when you take the thing out to clean it, if you tip it, all the cysts will flow out and contaminate your tank. So, It kinda works for me but I think it needs some design improvements. I am sure that once I figure it out, it will work great.

By CAROLINA on PetStore.com - Apr 17, 2013

Tom Aquatics Hatch N Feeder

i am happy so far :)the pipe fish and seahorse s are loving it.

By JAMES ROBERTSON on Marine Depot - Feb 13, 2012

Hey it works!

Might not be the best construction but at least it works! I would have made a few changes to construction and design. Like put 2 suction cups on there instead of one. But this thing does just what it says it will do. It will constantly pump out hatched out brine shrimp and they will swim out into your tank.

By AL TONGUIS on Marine Depot - Dec 24, 2010

Hey it works!

Might not be the best construction but at least it works! I would have made a few changes to construction and design. Like put 2 suction cups on there instead of one. But this thing does just what it says it will do. It will constantly pump out hatched out brine shrimp and they will swim out into your tank.

By AL TONGUIS on Marine Depot - Dec 24, 2010