Egg crate

[Leah]

Oh where, oh where... can I purchase (some from)????

Leah

[fishoholic]

Home hardware stores usually sell egg crate

[Leah]

Thanks Laurie! you are an

[Piscez]

I got a white sheet of 2'x4' egg crate (false ceiling light screen) at homedepot and was able to trim with some wire cutters and a metal file it to fit my eurobraced 120gal 4x2x2 perfectly. Haven't lost an orange spot sleeper goby since!!

[ALang]

Egg crate as tank screen may reduce a substantial amount of light going into your tank, if you have photosynthetic animals, that may be a concern
BRS sells rolls of this fine mesh 1/2" and 1/4" plastic screening that you can stretch over screen frames. It doesn't seem to deflect detectable amount of light going through it. Just as soon as I get rid of all my wires coming out from the top of my tank, I'm putting one in, too.FYI

[globaldesigns]

Home Depot carries it.

[Lampshade]

The RONA by my house carries black if you needed, in 2'x2' squares even, not sure if all rona's do or not. Wish i saw that before i bought the 4x2 white from home depot.

[kookie_guy]

Originally Posted by ALang

Egg crate as tank screen may reduce a substantial amount of light going into your tank, if you have photosynthetic animals, that may be a concern

Not really. It can actually help focus more light into the tank. If you've ever looked closely at light diffuser panels, you'll see that the suqres are not even on both sides. There's actually a top and bottom of the sheet, depending on what you want. There is a slight taper to the holes. If you put the narrower end down, it will help focus the light into the tank.

[Lampshade]

Originally Posted by kookie_guy

Not really. It can actually help focus more light into the tank. If you've ever looked closely at light diffuser panels, you'll see that the suqres are not even on both sides. There's actually a top and bottom of the sheet, depending on what you want. There is a slight taper to the holes. If you put the narrower end down, it will help focus the light into the tank.

THat's true, depends on youre bubls though, apperently with T5 it won't change much since you have a large spread of light so most is hitting eggcrate at 90 degrees. Check out this T5 comparison eggcrate vs glass(red/green): http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=28

[Ripwoop]

When you go to your Hardware store ask them for Light Defuser. They will more than likely scratch their head and have no idea if you call it "eggcrate"