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There are nets and plastic containers you put in your tank and place the pregnant female in prior to birth. The plastic containers have a slotted plate where the newborn fry fall through into a bottom compartment, thus keeping them from getting eaten by the mother. Note some of the fry are strong swimmers and will not fall through or will find a way to swim back up into the same area of the mother. There are also more advanced plastic nurseries where the newborn are sucked through a tube into a separate compartment completely away from the mother fish.

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