Hi there, friends.
A little backstory: I have a 32 biocube. Gerry-rigged a lid out of an old biocube lid and some eggcrate so that I could upgrade my light and sold the LED lid to recoup some costs. Lid was working great, until my kitten figured out how warm it is under the light and then got too big to crouch on the eggcrate. Now it's sagging and pulling away from where I siliconed it, and he is 100% going to fall in one of these days.
I've seen some of the custom lids folks have made and they look nice, but I'm not sure if they'd hold up to a cat jumping on it? :| I can keep him off when I'm home, but he simply will not learn that I don't want him up there. I keep waking up to him sitting on it and it creaking under his weight.
Otherwise, I guess, my only real option is to get a new biocube LED lid and downgrade my light. Not the biggest deal, my coral isn't exactly high-end (a few LPS, softies, zoas. Anemonies have positioned themselves to take up most of the light), I'm just worried I won't like the shift in light quality.
Suggestions? That don't involve getting rid of the cat, haha. Or DIY. I'm reaaallly not good at DIY.
A little backstory: I have a 32 biocube. Gerry-rigged a lid out of an old biocube lid and some eggcrate so that I could upgrade my light and sold the LED lid to recoup some costs. Lid was working great, until my kitten figured out how warm it is under the light and then got too big to crouch on the eggcrate. Now it's sagging and pulling away from where I siliconed it, and he is 100% going to fall in one of these days.
I've seen some of the custom lids folks have made and they look nice, but I'm not sure if they'd hold up to a cat jumping on it? :| I can keep him off when I'm home, but he simply will not learn that I don't want him up there. I keep waking up to him sitting on it and it creaking under his weight.
Otherwise, I guess, my only real option is to get a new biocube LED lid and downgrade my light. Not the biggest deal, my coral isn't exactly high-end (a few LPS, softies, zoas. Anemonies have positioned themselves to take up most of the light), I'm just worried I won't like the shift in light quality.
Suggestions? That don't involve getting rid of the cat, haha. Or DIY. I'm reaaallly not good at DIY.