My fish commit suicide!!

[ToeJam]

Visit a local home depot or something get gutter guard ...its a plastic mesh like material and rigid.

You can place it over the gaps in the cover and itll prevent suicide

 

[excuzzzeme]

Simply cut an opening in the plexi for the filters. Glass lids have a plastic strip that can be cut to allow for equipment

 

[bettabrat]

I use a couple sheets of plexi glass from HD under my lights. easy peasy

I did the same. I cut all mine to fit, scouring with a razor knife & snap along the seams...worked well for me.

 

[Pudge]

Does the plexi glass not affect the lighting though?

 

[kyle3]

in the wild if a fish jumps it always lands in the water again- they're just being frisky, platys, swordtails, bettas, even corys,. . . tons of fish have been know to jump- you've gotta take precautions- i have suspended light and HOB and I'm still able to have a glass lid, but you can come up with all sorts of solutions.

I had a male sword tail years ago who jumped out the narrow opening for the filter inflow 4 times i found him on the ground and put him back in the tank- he was a stinker!

cheers-K

 

[jaysinnva]

+1 for glass tops. Every tank we have has one now, love them!

 

[sleepyskater]

My neon did the same thing!
He must of been excluded by the other neons

 

[wataugachicken]

have you tested your water? sometimes fish jump for no reason, other times they may be trying to escape something.

 

[Pudge]

have you tested your water? sometimes fish jump for no reason, other times they may be trying to escape something.

I did a water test shortly after and the results were:
pH 7.6
Ammonia - 0
Nitrite - 0
Nitrate - 5-10

 

[Matt101905]

I don't know the stocking of your tank that the fish jumped out of...but sometimes other simi-agressive or aggressive fish might chase your fish and it just happened to jump out. Or like others said the fish could have done it for no reason at all.

Maybe something scared the fish and it just happened to jump.