The only time I move my lids are when I go to feed thawed Frozen food to the tank. still have to be careful because my BT trigger & my wrasses go nuts when they see me approach the tank.
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Today let's talk about covering our aquariums to keep our fishy friends from becoming fish jerky on the floor!
If you've ever lost fish to jumping then you know how disheartening and frustrating it can be. Sometimes even with a covered tank you'll have a fishy escape artist to find a way out and down on to the floor! So....let's discuss it!
1. Is your tank covered? If not please tell us your reasoning.
Definitely have lost too many. 1 is too many and I’ve lost a few even with covers.
2. How do you have your tank covered and are you happy with the solution you're using? We have a 6 ft tank that cam with a canopy and single screen top. It was I’ll fitting and we were too inexperienced to realize that. We have some serious jumpers now so we custom made 3 separate lids (1 for ease braced section) complete with zip tie handles and custom openings fo tubes/wires, etc. so far no losses!!
3. What do you dislike about having to keep your tank covered?
It’s a hassle but not as bas as losing one.
Do you get a lot of salt residue on the glassI use plate glass on all my tanks. No fish jumps and greatly reduces evap.
Since I'm using LEDs already turned down I could care less about a trivial percent of light loss.
My wrasse has shot up like a torpedo out of the water into the glass top and has never been injured (nor learned from its mistakes). I haven't seen an attempt with the new mesh cover, but I am worried that it cannot contain the beast.My fear with glass covers was my wonderful carpet surfing wrasse who has a death wish, my fear was he was going to kill himself hitting the glass top. As he would come up hard. So I switched to nylon.
I got a lot of salt residue on my glass. You definitely have to clean it every week (in my experience).Do you get a lot of salt residue on the glass
Sick light stand solutionI also had 3 or 4 fish jump before a broke down and put a screen cover on the aquarium