Snail Net

I was having an issue where one of my new mystery snails was escaping out of the tank through the 2 inch gap between the back of the tank and the edge of my glass cover. I didn't want to cover this completely, because I was concerned about oxygen getting into the water. The solution I came up with was to use a windowscreen frame kit. I cut it to the exact length I needed, and added a super cheap wide mesh screen. A butter knife worked just fine for the spline tool Some grommets that I happened to have from a previous project to make spaces for my tubing to go through!

I put the free edge of the mesh under the light that's on my glass top, which is being held in place Itself by a piece of all-weather marine weather stripping. It works really well, no snails have escaped, and I think it looks pretty good too.

 

Nice solution! Lol I put an empty bottle of tetra safe start over the opening in my lid... yours looks a LOT better

 

This has the added bonus of also keeping the little water spit from the bubbles breaking on the surface from getting anywhere

 

Those sneaky snails

 

Great solution and looks good too, however just be careful -I don't know what type of light you have but make sure it doesn't get hot enough to potentially melt the mesh net and start a fire! (I'm assuming it's polyester which is flammable).
I've been worried about aquarium lights ever since I heard a story of one of those black plastic hoods catching fire from a built in light.

 

Great solution and looks good too, however just be careful -I don't know what type of light you have but make sure it doesn't get hot enough to potentially melt the mesh net and start a fire! (I'm assuming it's polyester which is flammable).
I've been worried about aquarium lights ever since I heard a story of one of those black plastic hoods catching fire from a built in light.

It's a florescent, happily I can say I haven't had any trouble with it. So far so good! I'll likely switch it out for LED eventually.

 

Looks like a good solution great work!

 

Great solution. Keeps those escapees in check!

 

It's a florescent, happily I can say I haven't had any trouble with it. So far so good! I'll likely switch it out for LED eventually.

Thought it might've been, my fluros get really hot, but LEDs usually put out barely any heat at all, so that might be a safer option if you run into any problems. It should be fine but just wanted to warn you Never had any problems myself either, but I don't think I'd trust my lights on anything other than the glass as they get too hot.