What is the best aquarium top for flasher wrasses

[Ds04384]

I had a flasher recently die on me. It has been healthy for a few weeks and then started swimming in a corkscrew before dying the same night. Some people speculated this may have been caused from it jumping out of the tank and hitting the glass top that I put on there specifically to keep it from getting out of the tank. Do people that keep flashers all use soft/mesh or screen tops to their tanks?

 

[nereefpat]

Yes, most folks use and recommend the mesh tops.

They are easy to put together. You can buy a window screen kit at your hardware store. Only tools required would be measuring tape, hack saw, and one of those spline rolling tools.

You can also purchase a screen top. The two i've seen recommended here are the artful acrylic and octo-something or other.

 

[408Dartfish]

I have good luck so far with a mesh top on my Redsea tank with my line spot flasher wrasse. Saved him off carpet 3x and counting, but not when lid was on properly

 

[Jesterrace]

Mesh is considered the best. It will keep them in without injuring them/knocking them silly when they hit it.