fishish Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 (edited) Trying to work out water level, I'll need to drop it a bit as there will be a gap between the top of dividers I'm putting in and the lid due to a spray bar extending over part of first and second division. Google told me they can jump 3 inches!?!?! What do people on here think? Edited September 13, 2010 by fishish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiinks Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 I thought my level was low enough when I first got bettas, I had a divider separating male and female. Woke up in the morning with female in the males side. Thankfully they were okay, and I ended up pulling the divider out because they seemed happier together and weren't aggressive towards each other at all. I think it's the females that are more of the jumpers than the males are. From my experience, my male never jumped at all, my females have done it before, but only when they try to get on the other side where they shouldn't be <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Can't you stuff the gap with some kind of material? filter wool? plastic bags? You could DIY a bit of plastic, eg cut up a takeway container or ice cream tub, to create some kind of barrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 I also find that the females jump higher (I'm guessing because they don't have as much finnage), and my males hardly ever jump. I believe about the 3inches and am sure that once my Betta female jumped about 10cm. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neffy Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 the gaps they can jump out of can be tiny, i had a boy jump out of the triangle cut hole in his lid where the heater cables went in. Some of my girls are big jumpers too especially at feeding time they launch them selves out of the tank >.< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishish Posted September 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 (edited) i had a boy jump out of the triangle cut hole in his lid where the heater cables went in. i know it probably was far from funny so please excuse me Bettarazzi, I've been trying really hard to make my tank pretty so not too sure about stuffing stuff in the gaps... hmph I guess I could silicon some extra bits of the mesh im using for dividers on to it... but thats gunna be kinda more annoying a process than it sounds. Have been stuffing round with it way too long now! lol what to do... :confused: Edited September 13, 2010 by fishish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neffy Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 haha its hard to pick them up i just try to encourage them to flop onto my hand ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 If you want to see good jumpers get some Betta patoti.... they will find the smallest gaps and I've actually seen mine jump 15cm above the water and hit the glass lid of the tank... had a couple jump out of a gap no bigger than 0.5 cm and land on the floor... slippery damned things to pick up too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delyall Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Id probably be safe and make the dividers to the top of the tank and cut out a section for the spray bar. Better safe than sorry I suppose :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 Oh yes, they can jump very well ... I have face washers over the cut outs in the glass corners now after the last escape . On Friday, I was giving the first of the days feeds to my giant baby girls' tank (not so little any more I might add). I had the can of dried worms in one hand when one of the girls launched herself through the air . I caught her in the crook of my arm (still in my dressing gown with lots of soft polar fleece). My Mum cracked up laughing to see me covered in little grey strings (dried black worm), a fish sliding and wriggling down in to my dressing gown pocket and me yelling very rude expletives as I tried to catch the bloody thing . Cost me half a tub of worms but the fish never hit the ground and still had the nerve to go nuts over the ten pieces of food that actually fell into the tank . Bec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 :rofl: great catch Bec!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishish Posted September 13, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 (edited) I've actually seen mine jump 15cm above the water and hit the glass lid of the tank... Trying to give him/herself a concussion? lol oh my, they're little Houdini's! Delyall good idea... only a bit late I'm having one of those "now why didn't i think of that" moments so the thing is going to be, will i give myself another wild goose chase and re-do the dividers or leave it and if worst happens deal with it then.... ? i was thinking about your tank as same design (though i made some adjustments as my tank is a tinsy bit big). looked at the pic of your tank again and there looks to be a gap. Problems? though i guess it would vary fish to fish? Edited September 13, 2010 by fishish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delyall Posted September 13, 2010 Report Share Posted September 13, 2010 @bec I lol'd, Thatd be a sight to see @fishish I did have problems with the gap between the divider and the lid Most of the time, all was fine, but there were 2-3 times I had a lil' houdini who jumped like an Olympian Now I have dividers that go straight up to the lid, leaving no gaps Though my giant did manage to jump out of the tank somehow the other day.. still clueless as to how, unless he had the strength to lift the plastic-lid over the tank So just keep in mind, theyre determined lil' guys and if theres a way out, theyll find it :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neffy Posted September 14, 2010 Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 and if worst happens deal with it then.... ? well that depends if ur willing to deal with one fish killing the other :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishish Posted September 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 14, 2010 (edited) @Neffy yeah I realised I might have sounded a bit careless about it but didn't mean it quite so bluntly. Just been doing a huge amount of stuffing around with this tank, one oops after another lol. All a learning experience for a first tank of course but its starting to get annoying, im becoming impatient *I WANT FISH NOW!* and I'm a full time student so super busy. Sounds like I'll most certainly run into trouble if I don't re-do the dividers so I will. Thanks everyone for your responses, very good to know @Delyall, problem is... err the design of the tank I guess, even if the mesh goes all the way up theres a bit of glass that the lid sits on inside the tank which means that there is no way I can have it 100% gap free that way. Gap will be small but it sounds lilke that still might be risky <_< Edited September 14, 2010 by fishish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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