Wrasse jumped through eggcrate

[zombie]

Came home from work today to find my filamented flasher wrasse dried up on the floor. I have the top covered with eggcrate, but it somehow made it out anyway. Anybody seen any good ideas on how to do the mesh brs screening with hob overflows?

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[Dr.DiSilicate]

I had the brs type top on my 120. I made it small and zip tied egg crate stuff to the back couple inches to accommodate the over flow and suck. Worked pretty well.

 

[fishguy69]

They do that. Can't keep track how many I have seen do that, fishes that is. Sucks..sorry for your loss.

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[djkms]

I had the brs type top on my 120. I made it small and zip tied egg crate stuff to the back couple inches to accommodate the over flow and suck. Worked pretty well.

+1. Did the exact same thing on my old 125 with hob overflow. No losses.

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[zombie]

I had the brs type top on my 120. I made it small and zip tied egg crate stuff to the back couple inches to accommodate the over flow and suck. Worked pretty well.

Is this what you are talking about? of course there would be one for both sides.


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[Dr.DiSilicate]

Is this what you are talking about? of course there would be one for both sides.


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Yup.

 

[zombie]

Did you attach mesh to the eggcrate, or just leave that as-is? It would add a little extra security, but not sure if its really necessary

The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic graph.

 

[Dr.DiSilicate]

Wrasse jumped through eggcrate

I tied the mesh to the screen.

 

[zombie]

Not the cleanest looking cover, but I'd like to see a fish try to jump through this. I tried setting it up like I drew, but the screen bars blocked light right above my nem and ****ed it off, so i cut the window screen to fit around the overflows.

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