Firefish - Jumpers

[badfish]

If i get a firefish, and take off my glass canopy when i upgrade my lighting, will he be likely to jump out even if i have eggcrate on top. The eggcrate looks like a firefish might be able to get out, anybody have any problems with jumpers through Eggcrate.

 

[Ximat]

i have a purple firefish and im topless. Knock on wood he's never gone near the top of the tank

 

[austinsdad]

Have one in a topless tank. Been fine for almost a year. HAD another in a 40g tank for 2 months and he jumped. Ya never know. Tank mates, shadows from passerbys, anything might make'm jump. Then again, might not.

 

[badfish]

so you guys think eggcrate will help keep him in.

 

[austinsdad]

IMO, it'd lessen the chance he'd get out. Might get lucky and make it thru a hole. Might not. I found that the eggcrate darkened my tank more than I liked.

 

[Ximat]

One of the LFS' arround here put a screen top on their firefish tank. Like the ones you use for lizards and such. Still allows for the circulation but limits the escape factor