My 75 Pence Tank Divider!

[BIG BAD BARRY]

The main item: plastic canvas from Hobbycraft:

A close up of the label:

Image showing size of holes. This is 7hpi' ie 7 holes per inch. There are other sizes available, both in hole size and sheet size.

The other two items i used were plastic paper binders, already at home:

The binders were trimmed to fit the tank and lowered in.
The plastic canvas was trimmed and left slighter wider than the tank to help push the binders against the sides. This worked reasonably well but the plastic canvas is not rigid enough to fully keep the binders to the glass and some fish escaped for a short while.
I then flattened another binder and used it horizontally to keep the other two binders in place as in below pic:

The canvas does not have to be buried too deep in gravel, as long as the top is out of the water surface.

The baby fish are happy in their new space. No more breeding tank!

I will replace the horizontal binder with a better piece of plastic. It can easily be placed under the gravel if you want it out of the way.
Everything can be lifted out when no longer needed.
I borrowed the idea from another site http/nataku.devian...iders-114876098
It works really well and ther does not appear to be any problems with circulation.
Im sure people can improve on it and it would be good to see it done in a big tank.

 

[OldMan47]

Well done. It looks like a nice functional divider you have there.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Well done you for sorting this out so cheaply!

I bought a similar looking mesh from Ebay a while ago, but as you found, the mesh did not have enough rigidity to keep the sides "sealed" (my Lionhead Cichlid "dad" kept breaking through and giving his poor beaten up "wife" a hard time, she lost almost all her fins and was acting very submissive in the top corners of the tank... Very unnatural for a fish with little sim bladder that hops along the floor).

Due to the emergency I had, I lost patience with the divider, but I will difinitely look into the paper binder approach.

 

[the biffster]

now that is a cracking divider
and looking at that i think i
could also getaway using
the same stuff as a
gravel tidy as well

 

[scampi]

I'm gonna try this to keep my ADF's from my fish - they all get on fine but I worry in case the froggies aren't getting to their food in time. Thanks for the tip - wonderful

 

[FishAreFriendsNotFood10]

awesome m8 cheers for posting!

 

[JoshuaA]

So simple and effective, normally get ripped off at the LFS for a divider but that really is a great idea.