How to Keep Fish from Jumping Out of Your Fish Tank

When you have a fish tank you will probably purchase fish that will want to try and escape. Some types of gobies and bottom dwellers are really good at propelling themselves out of the water. Some fish from time to time will try to jump out of water to see what is above the water. If you want to keep your fish inside of your fish tank there are a number of things that you will need to do to keep them from jumping out of the water. You don't want to wake up in the morning and find your fish on the floor.

Take a look above your fish tank. If you do not have any type of lid on the aquarium, you will need one. Without a lid, your fish will be jumping out of the fish tank left and right. You can purchase glass tops from the pet store that will fit on your aquarium. You will need to know what size tank that you have and measure the space to make sure that the glass tops will fit. Be careful with these tops when you clean the fish tank because they are expensive and glass breaks very easily. Do not drop the glass top into the fish tank or it will probably land on a few of your fish.

You will need some type of top on the tank. If there are any open areas such as a slot for a filter system you will need to cover it. You will probably want to use the open filter area for a filter system. The fish can still jump into the filter system, so before you clean the filter and dump the water out you will want to make sure that none of the fish are in your filter. If you come up with a missing fish you will want to make sure that the fish didn't get into your filter system. As soon as you notice the fish missing you should check all around and behind your fish tank. A lot of my fish have ended up behind the fish tank.

If you have a glass top of your fish tank this will reduce the amount of fish that can jump out. If you do not have a glass top you will probably have fish that jump from the aquarium. If you don't have a filter system in the right spot you can have fish jumping out from there as well. If you have a filter system, make sure that you keep the lid on it to keep the fish from jumping into the filter. Make sure that the intake tube has a grid over it so when you suck up water, the fish will not swim or get sucked up into the filter system. Fish will try to escape any way that they can. I'm sure you've all seen the movie called Finding Nemo.