A lot of the time I will set up bottom spawners, or new fish I haven't bred before with a combination of a floating or sinking mop and peat. Just trying to cover my bases. If they want peat, they have it, If they want a mop, they have that too. Some fish that do well for me this way are the walkeri, blue Gularis, and in this example Fp. fallax CI98. I had not bred them before so I wanted to cover all bases.

The fish have been in a 2 gallon tank for about a month. Time to see what I have got!

First, get all the tools together. The fish tank, a shoe box for the stuff in the tank, a net, a brine shrimp type net, and a transfer container to move the pair to their new tank.

I put some of the original water into the transfer container and then catch the fish.

The plants and the mops go into part of the shoebox. Then take the fish and get them floating in their new tank. What is left in the tank is the gravel, the peat, and hopefully eggs. The peat can be fished out with the net, dripped for a moment, then made into a small pile in the shoe box.

I check the mop for eggs. Yup,  got a few in there. I don't like to handle then any more than I have to, so the mop gets suspended over a gallon jug to drip dry for a few minutes.

Now it is time to swirl the water some with my hand and start doing the figure eights in the tank with the brine shrimp net. At first it comes up with mostly peat. I add it to the peat pile in the shoe box. Repeat the cycle. Somewhere in here most of the peat has been pulled out and any eggs can be seen in the net. Roll them off with your finger and put them on the peat.

When you have collected all the eggs, put the plants somewhere to get them out of the way. Then tilt the shoe box on one side so the water runs out of the peat. I let it sit for an hour of so. Then lightly pressing the peat with a paper towel will get most of the rest of the water out. Then I scoop up the peat and put into a labeled plastic bag. This will go into my cardboard box that I store eggs in.

Back to the mop that has been hanging. Only hang it for 10-15 minutes or it will dry out too much. You want some definite moisture still in the mop. The very bottom of the mop probably has some hanging water. Give that a light squeeze to drip it off. Then I put the mop into a gallon size ziploc bag. That size for my mops makes them lay nice and straight. Is that important? Who knows. Put a label on the bag.

Get the air out the bag and zip it up. Then I roll it up so it fits nicely in my egg box.

That's it..... Until it is time to add water to the peat and pick the eggs out of the mop.