SF Bay Area: Where's a good place to find plate glass 1/4 inch thick?

Question

Home depot only has thin window pane glass. I'm looking for something more substantial to use as a fish tank lid. Size 2' x 3'. San Jose & Central valley preferred.

Answer 1

Look under glass in the yellow pages. There should be a ton of peope who sell what you want. You might also consider Lexan which is lighter and easier to work with. Available at any good glass store.

Answer 2

You must have a pretty mean and fully grown fish tank on your hands to be using such thick glass. I have two full grown snowflake eals that don't require that much weight to be kept in their tank. Are you sure that this is not a little over kill? You might be putting yourself in a situation where your tank temp. will rise to substantial high levels due to the temp from your lights not being able to escape, resulting in fish death. Or perhaps by putting the glasson on as a lid would 'seal off' the tank and gasses that need to vent would get trapped, resulting in fish death.
Have you thought of using that white plastic grated material used to disperse light from ceiling fixtures? It alows for a 'clean look' because it is not thicker than the lip on the walls of your aquarium. This grate is not heavy, but in my experience, it does not have to be. When I feed my eals, I feed them whole shrimps, and as soon as they smell the shrimp, they swim to the water surface, somtimes sticking their heads out of the water! STOPPING due to their noses simply touching the grate, and they go back under water to continue seaching for food.
Even with small fish that are 'jumpers'. As soon as they hit their nose on that grate on their first jump, they'll learn never to try and jump again.
If they do continue to jump, double check you water quality.

If none of this helped, cuz it was not what you need, then look up glass in the yellow pages, you'll find what you need.

Hope I saved you some trouble!

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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