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gone fishin
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Screens for me. I believe any fish will jump in the right circumstance.
Bolivian Ram
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I have a screen. My Blue Throat Triggers have jumped before but the screen stopped them from carpet surfing.
jmm
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I just had my aquarium built with the overflow (which I keep covered) low enough that the distance from the top of the water to the top of the tank is 5 inches. So far, nothing has jumped.
It is essentially the same as a topless canopy, but the sides are made out of glass. It also doesn't splash when I use the magnet cleaners and the magnets are stored in the back corner, above the water level, which keeps them clear of algae and coraline algae. I like it.
Make the tank any size you want, but figure the gallons by how high the water is, not by how high the sides are.
It is essentially the same as a topless canopy, but the sides are made out of glass. It also doesn't splash when I use the magnet cleaners and the magnets are stored in the back corner, above the water level, which keeps them clear of algae and coraline algae. I like it.
Make the tank any size you want, but figure the gallons by how high the water is, not by how high the sides are.
yellowRubi
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Clear screen from BRS here
slief
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I have two 24"x24" openings above my 4'x8' tank. I've only had fish jump out one side which is like due to the way my aquascape is setup. All of those jumpers were wrasses so I ended up making a screen for that one opening and in the two years since putting it up there, i haven't had a single jumper since.
jason2459
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I have a canopy over my tank that I attach a window screen along the back of. This allow the fish to jump all they want. If and when they have hit the back window screen they slide back into the tank. I've heard of fish getting injured jumping into glass tops and making their way through those screen tops only to get stuck on top of them or land on the floor. I have a center overflow with a top on it but even if a fish got through I don't use a filter sock which is where most damage happens to fish if they get sucked into the syphon.
Silly clownfish
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Full glass, it reduces humidity and my former McCoskers Wrasse used to slam into it loudly several times a week ( that I heard). I eventually lost him to finding a slit around my return pipe to jump out of. I kept the area blocked woth foam, but must have scrunched the foam when doing a WC and left a gap.
That was the 3rd fish in my 17 years of reefkeeping to find an impossibly small gap.
That was the 3rd fish in my 17 years of reefkeeping to find an impossibly small gap.
Thanks everyone for your input.I have glass tops available,and I cover at nite,just don't like how it looks so I don't use it during the day.I was surprised by the results,overwelming majority using tops of some kind.I just purchased a geometric pygmy hawk,and considering a wrasse of some kind,so it looks like I will leave the tops on as well.
Flippers4pups
Home made abyss
Canopy on mine, jump all they want. Without a canopy, screen top is the only way to go.
MondoBongo
Obligate Feeder Obsessed
this.
i have BRS screen top on my tank. i've lost a clown fish, not known as jumpers, to jumping, as well as a wrasse (found a way through the egg crate i was using previously).
it pays off to cover up.
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