Jumpers

[SSalty]

What are you guys using to cover your tanks to keep the "jumpers" from shooting out of the tank?

 

[Bifferwine]

Eggcrate. Found in the lighting section of Home Depot or Lowe's. Cut it to fit the top of your tank. Helps to keep the water oxygenated and lets all the light through too.

 

[Alexander]

glass tops here. there are a lot of glass top haters out there though. i keep it real in my house 68 degrees at all times, so i can assure you that heat is no issue here

 

[SSalty]

I want to use egg-crate but I am kind of worried, I am looking into getting a carpenter wrasse but I heard they can even jump out of that.

 

[Sara]

glass if it's not too hot. found out the hard way. :)

 

[HAWKS12thMAN]

i dont have anything covering my tank..... knock on wood

 

[Alexander]

i dont have anything covering my tank..... knock on wood

but if i remember correctly, you dont have a whole lot to worry about with jumping at this moment.

 

[Alexander]

whats up sara havnt seen you in a while. thought my idaho support had left

 

[reeffreak]

I am topless too!:mrgreen:
I have purple firefish that are jumpers but they haven't jump yet....knock on wood.

 

[Alexander]

i had the redish ones. i really like the purple ones. how many do you have. just a pair?

 

[Sara]

I'm currently topless too.:bounce: just kidding. But with the heat I'm terrified of coming home to a tank of horror and ammonia. It's starting to cool off though, (hopefully) so the glass will be going back on.

 

[Alexander]

just get a better air conditioner and you will be just fine. 68 degrees year round Is where its at. and of course I'm talking house temp not water temp :eek:

 

[reeffreak]

i had the redish ones. i really like the purple ones. how many do you have. just a pair?

I have a pair.They share the same hole in the rock when the lights are out .When the lights are on,they don't want anything to do with one another.I think its better to have 3 or more.

 

[RigoSharon]

eggcrate ..helps keeps temps low, and anoying jumpers...(thanks biff)

 

[Alexander]

I have a pair.They share the same hole in the rock when the lights are out .When the lights are on,they don't want anything to do with one another.I think its better to have 3 or more.

i was under the asumption that firefish buried themselves at night or is it that ifthey have a big enough burrow that they dont do that

 

[Bifferwine]

My firefish don't bury themselves, they hide in the rock.

 

[hibye]

mine hide in the rocks to

 

[reeffreak]

I guessing yours don't have a hole in the rocks big enough for them.

 

[Alexander]

i dont have them anymore. they were the first fish i got when i started the hobby and as all of us were and some of us still are, i got impatient. bought them way too soon.... they lived 3 days haha

 

[Bifferwine]

Yes, but you will always have the pictures to remember them by :cry:.