Glass canopy?
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I'm confused....I have wood canopies over my tanks to hold the lights, and glass tops to keep the fish from jumping out. I fail to see how any other material is going to block less light than glass...other than acrylic maybe...
I HAD a glass top, but heat got to be to big of an issue so I removed it... I have lost 2 jumping wrasses because of that.. but the alternative.. cooking my tank, would make me lose a lot more.
Ya but the glass canopy gets dirty and cuts out light and also it has the solid colored strips in the middle where it bends to open up...if you have a canopy the only way the fish may be able to jump out would be through the back of the tank and that is if they don't jump into the light fixture first...
Ace, how hot was your tank getting?
Ace, how hot was your tank getting?
That's why I clean my glass. 3 minutes a day to wipe it down really isn't a pain in the butt. I'd call myself a lazy a@@ if I didn't feel like doing it.
ya, even I take off the plastic covers on both my light fixtures daily and wipe them down. They get a little dirty just from the salt water bubbles popping and making fine mist.
The worst my tank every got was in the summer of '05. The water got up to 92f. Killed every coral I had except my anemone and richordia, and I lost 1 potters angel. After than I became religous about open tops and fans blowing across them during hot days. I also have a temp probe with alarms if the temp goes to low or to high and I have even trained my roommate to take frozen water bottles out of the freezer and toss them in the sump if the alarm goes off and I am not home. I lost a lot of $ in corals in just 1 week of 110f heat outside.
The worst my tank every got was in the summer of '05. The water got up to 92f. Killed every coral I had except my anemone and richordia, and I lost 1 potters angel. After than I became religous about open tops and fans blowing across them during hot days. I also have a temp probe with alarms if the temp goes to low or to high and I have even trained my roommate to take frozen water bottles out of the freezer and toss them in the sump if the alarm goes off and I am not home. I lost a lot of $ in corals in just 1 week of 110f heat outside.
that's why i don't keep jumpers in my tank, then you don't need to worry and can have the top open 
I too had glass canopies on my tank...the worst part is that I had to make some frames to hold them up since my tank is so old, but as soon as I started running my lights in a normal cycle the temperature would not drop below 82-84 degrees, so I took them off and replaced them with egg crate. The egg crate cuts out a surprising amount of light, though. But it keeps fish in and objects out. As soon as I went to no canopies, my evaporation went from 1/2g a day to 2g a day.
Robbie
Robbie
Ok I think I get it...maybe a call them different things. To me, a canopy is some structure that covers the whole top of the tank and sits on top, and gives you a place to mount lights, fans, etc. A Glass top is just a pane of glass, sometimes with a hinge, that sits in the groove around the rim of the tankk.
I have a wooden canopy where my PC lights are mounted. I used to have glass tops as well to help control evaporation, but I had a similar overheating meltdown last summer on a 100*+ day and lost a lot of corals. I took the glass off and put fans in my canopy, and bought an air conditioner, and we're all good.
I have a wooden canopy where my PC lights are mounted. I used to have glass tops as well to help control evaporation, but I had a similar overheating meltdown last summer on a 100*+ day and lost a lot of corals. I took the glass off and put fans in my canopy, and bought an air conditioner, and we're all good.