do i need a cover

[joe]

do you think you can answer this question.
the fish that i seem to be taking a fancy to and wanna add them to my tank all seem to be jumpers. do you think an egcrate cut out for the top would be enuf or would i need to get a glass cover. thing is isnt that bad to have a glass cover (ya know salt build up / oxegyn exchange)

any body got ideas

joe

 

[joseney21]

how about......suspense......suspense......A HOOD!!!!!!!!!TAAAAAAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!get some help building one if you need to, but definitely the way to go in my opinion.

 

[joe]

nah im not gonna get hood on 2 twenty high, way to expensicve and not what i need.
any one else?

 

[Deanos]

Eggcrate will be fine.

 

[DEEPWATER]

egg crate is good enuff

 

[jhale]

eggcrate is good. even with a hood fish will get out.

I just lost a dispar anathias the other day, one was missing and I found her dried up
on the side of the tank inside the hood. my tank has one side of the hood open to allow the return to come up and over the side of the tank. that really sucked.

I also lost a bird wrasse once in a QT that had every part covered in eggcrate except for a few inches where the filter tubes came in. somehow this very large fish found that very small hole and jumped out of the tank into an empty salt bucket. I felt sick when I found him like that.

if you cover your top with eggcrate make sure it's as tight as can be. I still feel bad when I think of the fish that have jumped out of my tank. with some good planning you can prevent this, the worst they might get are some bruised fins and a headache.

 

[jawwad2004]

I lost my lawnmower blenny like this. Dude jumped out, found him 3 days on the floor underneatht the stand. I have a light carpet, now there is an imprint of fish scales where he was.

 

[jhale]

I lost my lawnmower blenny like this. Dude jumped out, found him 3 days on the floor underneatht the stand. I have a light carpet, now there is an imprint of fish scales where he was.

that happened to a large snowflake eel I had years ago. he stuck to the carpet and left a ring on it, so sad

 

[joe]

thanks alot
but wont think fish like gobies and blennys be able to git throught the squre hole in the eggcrate.
should i just be sure and get the glass hood. wats so bad about a glass hood that would prevent me from using it?

 

[DRZL]

thanks alot
but wont think fish like gobies and blennys be able to git throught the squre hole in the eggcrate.
should i just be sure and get the glass hood. wats so bad about a glass hood that would prevent me from using it?

Glass tops are notorious for bad air exchange, basically your tank cant breathe and expel gases as needed, evap goes down and dosing anything by ATopoff will be useless. If you have a sump its ALRIGHT but you really want as much air exchange as you can have (PH issues galore)

 

[joe]

rite well then i guess ill be doing eggcrate.

its time for a WTB post

 

[jawwad2004]

What DRZL said, is very sensible. I think gas exchange might have been one of the reason which kept my tank alive in its infancy.

 

[DRZL]

You buy eggcrate at home depot, its the stuff that home fluorescent lighting has as paneling, make sure you get white plastic, no metallics

 

[joe]

gotcha
woops already posted a WTB

maybe ill get lucky if not

ill go to a ardware story hopefully they will have
dont really know of a homo depot in manhatten

thanks DRZL

 

[DRZL]

ill go to a ardware story hopefully they will have
dont really know of a homo depot in manhatten

:lol:
Why not try the village?

Your welcome bud :grouphug:

 

[nanoreefer22]

gotcha
woops already posted a WTB

maybe ill get lucky if not

ill go to a ardware story hopefully they will have
dont really know of a homo depot in manhatten

thanks DRZL

o0o0o0oo boy never heard of one of those in manhattan either....as a matter a fact never heard of one in the US or the rest of the world either. Might have a hard time finding one of those stores. Take DRZL's advice

 

[joseney21]

you guys are BAD!!!!

 

[joe]

ritey then