how to cover open top aquarium?

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toehead11183

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looking into buying this aquarium for stingrays, but concerned with it being an open top. measures at 7'x3'x1.5't. will it be possible to put a lid on it? wife will not allow it if fish are splashing around or getting out. also have a 15" niger cat that will go it.077.JPG
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You could get some 1/2" or 3/8" acrylic on ebay pretty cheap and put a lid on there. If your going to keep it as full as it is there I would definitely recommend a lid, but if you dropped the water level down maybe 3" from the top I wouldn't worry about a lid unless you have some rays that really like to splash I guess. I keep my rays in open top ponds for the most part, with the water about 3" from the top, it is extremely rare that they manage to splash out.
 
3" less water leaves a tank that's only 12" tall. Not much use for any but the smallest rays. You could get the 3" back by adding eurobracing around the perimeter. Personally I'd pass on the tank unless it's ridiculously cheap (which seems unlikely given it's probably got thicker glass allowing it to be un-braced).
 
If you are handy with DIY, you could fashion some acrylic clips that would slide onto the top edges of the tank and then get some glass panes cut to fit. The acrylic clips would be similar to the ones sold for ADA aquarium glass canopies.

Here is a link to the stainless ones that ADA offers based on the glass thickness.
 
the rays will climb out of that for sure or spit water all over your floor

rays love to spit i am always getting alarms and sending me a SMS message saying water leak sensor wet when i go to look its the rays spitting so i had to cover all the holes since then no SMS
 
T1KARMANN said:
the rays will climb out of that for sure or spit water all over your floor

rays love to spit i am always getting alarms and sending me a SMS message saying water leak sensor wet when i go to look its the rays spitting so i had to cover all the holes since then no SMS
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How do you get a SMS sent to u when water splash? Haha
 
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