[AquaticLife] Fry divider for tank
It never ceases to amaze me what some LFS have never heard of with regard to what I consider to be fairly common equipment, live stock, or plants.
It is fairly easy to make one yourself, though it will require some cutting and a bunch of drilling to do so. Before you do that, however, take a look around in craft stores, and similar, to see if you can find any relatively stiff plastic that is already perforated with small holes and is big enough to fit into your tank, even if you must cut to fit.
No matter which you need to use, you will need to have the inside measurements of the tank. You need to know the width of the tank, where the divider will go from side to side, and the depth from underneath the top frame to the bottom of the tank, or as far as you will be placing the divider into the substrate. You will then need to cut your divider to be to those dimensions. If you needed to buy a piece without holes, you will need to drill them. These holes need to be smaller than the new born fry so that the fry cannot, at any time, swim through them. You’ll need to clamp the plastic, plexi, whatever, to a piece of old wood that you don’t mind getting holes in, and start drilling. You can go for a nice, neat, orderly drilling of holes, or just do them randomly. The holes are to allow the passage of water so you can use the same filter, do your water changes, etc. from either side of the tank.
If this is to be temporary, you’ll need to devise a method of holding the panel in place with clips, or some other temporary fastening. If this is to be a tank to keep fry in, and you will be doing this on a regular basis, never removing the panel, then you can use silicon sealant to hold it in place.
\Steve//
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