SittingDuck
Aquarium Advice Regular
I've got a 5 month old FOWLR with one colony of Button Polyps (I Plan on adding more corals eventually). I have a light fixture that is on legs that stands 2 inches above the water and had to replace the Canopys that came with the tank due to the amount of light they would block. Right now, it's an open top with nothing over it.
A few days ago I had a Longnose Hawk jump out of the tank. I found him in the morning stuck to the carpet. I've also had a Firefish jump out of the tank also.
I was speaking with a guy at my LFS and mentioned that I was considering getting a glass lid for the aquarium to stop the fish from hopping out. He said it was a bad idea that the glass top would stop %40 of the light and was bad for any reef aquarium. He said that the jumping fish were an acceptable risk for any reef aquarium.
I was trying to consider other options because I don't like the idea of jumping fish, regardless if it's acceptable or not, and was wondering how a screen, similar to the kind that is used on a screen door, would fair over the top of the aquarium? Is there any way to put anything over the tank to stop the jumpers, yet allow the maximum amount of light to pass through to not upset the corals? Or are jumping fish an "Acceptable risk" when trying to setup a reef tank? Is there a natural way of preventing the fish from jumping? Say, surface agitation that would keep them from the top (2 or three power heads skimming the surface for example)?
Thanks.
A few days ago I had a Longnose Hawk jump out of the tank. I found him in the morning stuck to the carpet. I've also had a Firefish jump out of the tank also.
I was speaking with a guy at my LFS and mentioned that I was considering getting a glass lid for the aquarium to stop the fish from hopping out. He said it was a bad idea that the glass top would stop %40 of the light and was bad for any reef aquarium. He said that the jumping fish were an acceptable risk for any reef aquarium.
I was trying to consider other options because I don't like the idea of jumping fish, regardless if it's acceptable or not, and was wondering how a screen, similar to the kind that is used on a screen door, would fair over the top of the aquarium? Is there any way to put anything over the tank to stop the jumpers, yet allow the maximum amount of light to pass through to not upset the corals? Or are jumping fish an "Acceptable risk" when trying to setup a reef tank? Is there a natural way of preventing the fish from jumping? Say, surface agitation that would keep them from the top (2 or three power heads skimming the surface for example)?
Thanks.