dang it

Red Sea 500 · Jul 19, 2022

Looks like I need a lid for my peninsula Red Sea 500
found my blue dot jawfish on the floor this am……loved that fish…….

Rhino · Jul 19, 2022

I'm at that point that I wouldn't run a tank without some type of cover, even if it's just a screen top.

KrisReef · Jul 19, 2022

May I suggest one of the Reef2Reef supporters
Check them out here!

@Kraken Reef

bnord · Jul 19, 2022

Sorry Bud, somehow loosing fish that way seems to hurt more than others…

I have a new lids from Krakken that is sweet, not sure if they have your size…

blaxsun · Jul 19, 2022

I'm training my fish to stay in the tank. Thus far I have a 100% success rate with the survivors.

Sorry to hear about your jawfish - I had a really nice fairy wrasse that attempted to set a long jump record a few weeks back.

OrchidMiss · Jul 19, 2022

I just found mine on the floor the other day too.... made it out of the egg crate lid.... So sad.

Tired · Jul 19, 2022

I don't get why people don't have lids. Yes, it looks better, but you can take the lid off if you want to sit and view the tank. Without a lid, you've added another way for your fish to die, and it's a particularly horrible death. A fish that hits the floor can take hours to suffocate to death.

Sorry about your fish. Definitely get a lid.

Red Sea 500 · Jul 19, 2022

KrisReef said:
May I suggest one of the Reef2Reef supporters
Check them out here!

@Kraken Reef

They don’t do peninsula lids

ggNoRe · Jul 19, 2022

Sorry for your loss. I had a blue spot jawfish jump out of quarantine WITH a lid on it. He found a little crack by the filter where there was just enough room...

Got another one in my display with a custom lid from TopLids now and no room to jump.

Red Sea 500 · Jul 19, 2022

Just ordered one from top lids outta Tampa FL
aint cheap but looks good 2 me.

blaxsun · Jul 19, 2022

Tired said:
I don't get why people don't have lids. Yes, it looks better, but you can take the lid off if you want to sit and view the tank. Without a lid, you've added another way for your fish to die, and it's a particularly horrible death. A fish that hits the floor can take hours to suffocate to death.

Sorry about your fish. Definitely get a lid.

For me, a few reasons.
1. The fish and inverts are always knocking/fragging something off which has to be fixed (despite glue... lots and lots of glue).
2. The smaller ones manage to find their way through the mesh anyway (and overflows).
3. They splash constantly, which would another maintenance aspect to my tank.

In the past year, other than the "torpedoes" (dartfish) I purchased - I've only lost 2 fish to misadventure. Both were wrasses (the sixline went exploring in the overflow and got caught in the gate valve and the aforementioned other wrasse was trying to set a new long distance record, which he did).

Tired · Jul 19, 2022

You can take the lid off for maintenance, and use small mesh to prevent escapes and avoid splash problems. Saves you money on replacing livestock, and saves your livestock (dartfish and wrasse this year, I take it) a lot of potential suffering.

Same reason you get your mammalian pets vaccinated against disease- saves you a lot of trouble and them a lot of suffering if something goes wrong, even if it is annoying to get them to the vet.

Kraken Reef · Jul 20, 2022

Red Sea 500 said:
They don’t do peninsula lids

Feel free to shoot us a message, we may be able to design one for that model.

aabjones888 · Jul 20, 2022

Sorry, Them blue dots are notorious for jumping out. I’ve had one also jump out threw the tiniest of cracks. It sucks because they are a beautiful fish.