PJs
10-23-2005, 05:19 PM
Don't know if anyone else has had this need, but I have often needed a temporary divider for my tank and not been able to find one for my life. Thought I'd post a pic and a couple ideas for others, and maybe there's someone out there with an even better idea.
When my angels and palette cichlids spawned, I made a rather brittle plexiglass divider with lots of holes drilled in it and then covered with a finer netting. This kept water flowing somewhat, and smaller fish from invading the families' territories.
I've also had battles between new fish, or just at breeding time. Now I found and cut up a flat-sided laundry basket with large enough holes to allow very good water circulation and for small fish to swim through (or escape), but it keeps my angel on one side from being battered by the discus male on the other.
What was to be a temporary solution while I decided what to do with my angel, now may become permanent. I've had the angel 5 years (lost its mate) and I'm starting to like the look of the blue divider in the tank. Sort of modern, zones type of thing. :o
When my angels and palette cichlids spawned, I made a rather brittle plexiglass divider with lots of holes drilled in it and then covered with a finer netting. This kept water flowing somewhat, and smaller fish from invading the families' territories.
I've also had battles between new fish, or just at breeding time. Now I found and cut up a flat-sided laundry basket with large enough holes to allow very good water circulation and for small fish to swim through (or escape), but it keeps my angel on one side from being battered by the discus male on the other.
What was to be a temporary solution while I decided what to do with my angel, now may become permanent. I've had the angel 5 years (lost its mate) and I'm starting to like the look of the blue divider in the tank. Sort of modern, zones type of thing. :o