Mesh lid for aquariums.

This mesh lid was after several others tried over the years.

The first was of lengths of glass making something similar to a picture frame, then the mesh was siliconed onto the glass, it kept breaking to often.
The next was the same but with acrylic melted together to make a frame then silicon again, it changed shape too much over time and I would turn it over from time to time.
The last time was the one in the pics that follow; a plastic tub lid converted by cutting with an angle grinder and rejoining with my soldering iron, then the hard part as before, you sit newspaper down and stretch the mesh over it slightly larger then the lid by sitting spray cans, jars anything to hold the mesh stretched out.
Then you rough up the area with sand paper where silicon will make contact with the plastic and put silicon around the lid as a bead and sit it on the mesh, leave it for half a day and its set nicely.
The newspaper washes off once it’s wet.
With a soldering iron and heat gun you would be amazed at what you can make for your reef hobby from any kind of melt able material.
This lid fits half a four-foot tank or one two-foot tank like mine nicely.