Safe to keep a cichlid aquarium without a lid?

[BassetsForBrown]

I want to get rid of the glass covers on my tank and put some lucky bamboo in the substrate tall enough to come up and out of the water. I'd keep the light sitting on the rim, but that's it.

Is this a safe idea, or am I likely to wake up one morning to find a dead fish on the carpet?

 

[Aquanero]

likely to wake up one morning to find a dead fish on the carpet?

This.

 

[jaws7777]

I wouldnt do it. I used to have an oscar that would bang on the lid all the time

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[BassetsForBrown]

That's kind of what I thought, except that almost every LFS I've been in always had no covers on any of their tanks.

 

[ehh]

I worked at a lfs. Can you guess many fish they find under the tank racks?


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[peathenster]

What cichlid(s)?

 

[PYRU]

You may be ok, but is it really worth the risk?

I've had problems keeping them in the tank with a lid/canopy.

 

[qguy]

For the fish safety, get a lid.

 

[ryansmith83]

My LFS doesn't have lids either and I always see crispy, dried-up cichlid bodies pinned between the tanks and the wall. I hear mine jump and hit the lids all the time, whether it's because they were startled, or chasing each other, or sometimes they just see something that catches their eye and they jump for it. I wouldn't recommend it because it's only a matter of time.

 

[Blue Bear]

Pretty much agree with everyone else, it might be okay, it might not. Not Worth the risk imo. My Oscar bangs the lid hard at night and was me up quite often.