Will Jumpers Always Jump?

[Bleigh]

I'm ordering a lid from octoaquatics this week. All of his lids have looked sleek, imo.

 

[juanrmattos]

You wont regret investing in a top regardless of quality or design, even if you have “educated” fish there are many additional benefits other than restrain... Temp fluctuations, water evaporation etc etc

I wish you end up getting one you truly like, there are amazing products out there nowadays

 

[doodledreads]

You wont regret investing in a top regardless of quality or design, even if you have “educated” fish there are many additional benefits other than restrain... Temp fluctuations, water evaporation etc etc

I wish you end up getting one you truly like, there are amazing products out there nowadays

A mesh lid will not help with that a lot. You must be thinking of a full glass or acrylic lid which does help with cutting the evaporation down; however will also reduce the light intensity by almost half.

 

[Kengar]

guess i'll pony up and order the lid. ClearView

 

[juanrmattos]

A mesh lid will not help with that a lot. You must be thinking of a full glass or acrylic lid which does help with cutting the evaporation down; however will also reduce the light intensity by almost half.

I guess it all depends on your setup, I have a hybrid acrylic/mesh top and ever since I installed it the temperature inside my reef went down two degrees, the water evap reduced by 200ml and my par reading difference in nearly undetectable.

In any case, for what is worth, nothing bad can come from having one installed

 

[GlassMunky]

guess i'll pony up and order the lid. ClearView

youre gonna be waiting a while.... 9-11 weeks is just for them to start on new orders..... :-/

 

[Dana Riddle]

As an aside, Joyce Wilkerson visited a marine fish breeding facility years ago and relayed this story. I think she told me it was Pseudochromis species. In any case, she saw some of them jump out of the tanks onto the concrete floor and her reaction was, naturally, to pick them up and return them to the tank. She was discouraged from doing this - the breeder wanted the jumpers to be culled out. So, there is a chance captive bred fishes are less likely to be jumpers.

 

[MichaelReefer]

My two Cents: I just got my new Reefer 250 a few weeks ago, decided to procrastinate and be a rebel and not put my new top on....

Found my one year old black clownfish dead on the floor when I got home.

I built the net that night and it will stay on forever.

 

[Kengar]

youre gonna be waiting a while.... 9-11 weeks is just for them to start on new orders..... :-/

so then I'll buy and QT the goldflake first.....

order will go in today once I hear back from them

 

[krash7172]

I am considering one of these. Custom size for 60 bucks...

www.flexscreenusa.com

 

[ianryd]

Non jumpers will jump too. I had a glass top and took it off for like 3 days this summer because of heat. My Red Dragonette went carpet surfing. Lesson learned I now have screen tops.

 

[lpsouth1978]

I am considering one of these. Custom size for 60 bucks...

www.flexscreenusa.com

That seems like a pretty cool option, except....

I think that it will block A LOT of light. The holes are very small and too close together. The amount of light blocked by that type of screen is substantial.

 

[saltyhog]

Depending on what kind of tank you have you won't have a single 7' lid but multiple lids to cover the whole tank. It's a simple matter to remove the lid in which ever portion of the tank you want to feed in. Mine are Octolids.

 

[maroun.c]

It's when not if. And to make it worse all fish can and will jump. Had wrasses, gangs and even mandarins, dragon face pipe fish, and many more jump. Some even through double layers of eggcrate over quarantine. Worse was a lineatus I had which jumped 5 times 3 of them through a tiny opening in the screen that I had covered with eggcrate.

 

[Bleigh]

I just put in my order at octoaquatics. The company owner is a big supporter of the site.

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[bacc2bacc]

In my expierence, jumpers will always jump, only a matter of when

 

[rkpetersen]

Flasher and fairy wrasses are notorious jumpers, even in a sparsely populated tank.
Lineatus wrasses in particular seem to be very skittish; given the price, I wouldn't risk one without a lid.
As often as not, it won't be due to other fish, but to you or a family member or pet moving suddenly near the tank.

 

[Mark Gray]

Yes eventually they will jump, had a gobby 3 years found him on the floor dad day. And sometimes fish that are not jumpers jump had a yellow tang for 5 years found it on the floor

 

[chaoticreefer]

I think it's grossly wrong to say all fish will jump eventfully. What it comes down to is the fish's instinct. Some jump up, some dive down, even within same species. For an example, I have a mystery wrasse (being a wrasse "he's a jumper"), his instinct is to dive down, never once I have heard/seen him jump up. I have had him for 2 years now in a topless rimless tank. I have had many other fish over my 20 years of reefing that are supposed to be jumpers never gave a hint of being depressed. I have had a diamond goby, well known for jumping, in this case it was true but at that time I had a lid too, one night, it wasn't perfectly on with maybe an inch gap, found him next morning on my floor.

Sometimes you can catch their instincts at the LFS, but other then that, the only way to find out is when you get home put them in your tank.

 

[Tastee]

I agree with everyone else, jumpers will eventually jump. I also have an Artfully Acrylic lid for my RSR 250 which I got after I rescued our female clown from the floor next to the tank (thankfully she jumped when I was home and has survived perfectly well). I am in Sydney Australia and paid as much for the freight as I did for the lid but I don’t regret 1c of it.

I didn’t put in the feeding slot as I wanted to keep it as clean as possible. We just feed pellets through the screen and lift the front to feed frozen. When cleaning I either take it off temporarily (and give it a rinse in the shower) or lift the front and hold it up on my light stands with a couple of clips. I also do the latter when I target feed my corals with a long fine blaster. Hopefully the photo below helps explain what I do.