My lights came in!! Woo-hoo!

[fishiefishie]

Quick question though... I need to put some mesh over the tank top for my jawfish, but how should I do it? I have it under the light legs but it's in the water a little, which I'm not sure if that's ok or not. It's a black plastic mesh, like window screen.
Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Markushka]

could you just fit the mesh to the rim of your tank? Its probably not good to have the mesh in the water. do you have the mesh stretched on a frame? or just draped on the tank?

 

[fishiefishie]

It's stretched over the rim of the tank, held in place by the light legs, but the center still touched the water a little, esp with the tank filled to the rim.
I'll try to post a pic...

 

[fishiefishie]

Here's a couple of pix of what I initially did.

 

[Markushka]

you want to do a frame something like in this thread, don't need the fancy doors though. I'll try and find a better example.

 

[fishiefishie]

What do most of y'all do, the ones with jumpy fish and off-the-tank lighting?

 

[rogersb]

cross our fingers

 

[fishiefishie]

LOL really??? If you don't typically lose fish I may risk it, but if you're just being funny then I really will try to figure something out.

 

[fishiefishie]

If I used some sort of metal hardware cloth, would there be a problem with it rusting from the saltwater? Is there maybe some sort of paint I could coat it with to keep it sealed?
Thanks!

 

[greech]

No to metal (not even painted). Is the mesh in your water metal? You want pond netting used to keep birds out. Frame that into a window frame kit you can get at any hardware store. Problem with this netting is finding it in 1/4" grids. It's usually at HD but its 1/2" which won't help much with a jawfish. You can double 1/2" the netting or criss-cross it to make the grids smaller which looks to be what the link above shows.