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I got this divider for my 10 gallon long fish tank that I was going to use for two male bettas, but then decided to divide into three for three male bettas. The mesh screen that comes with this divider is crystal clear and bettas can see straight through it. Before buying this product I had read reviews that this kind of divider is OK because bettas will just flare at each other for a few days, get... however, from my experience, the stress this divider creates for bettas is really, REALLY not worth it. I started with two happy bettas and after using this screen for about 4 days I now have two bettas that have stress-induced fin tears. I finally took one of the bettas out today and put him in a fish bowl and I can only hope that their fins will regrow, but I really would not recommend this divider for betta owners. I even tried to prevent my bettas from seeing each other by putting plants next to the screen and replacing the clear screen with plastic canvas but it was no use, they would just swim in and around the plants and flare at each other and they can... I bought this divider to divide my ten gallon so I could house two male bettas. I will say that the divider itself worked well at keeping the fish apart, it stayed up straight and they didn't jump over the top so I think that if you used this with other sorts of fish it would probably be okay, but just not with two bettas. Thus, I had to go to a pet store out of town to pick up the SAME THING, because I didn't want to divide into two, then go in and redo it all to divide into three (call me lazy). Of less importance, but I thought I should note it anyways: The plastic tracks that come with this divider are aqua blue and really don't do anything for the look of your aquarium unless you already happened to have an aqua blue color scheme going... Now I find myself with two sick fish and out about 10 bucks from buying this divider and I still have to buy another filter and heater to set up my second betta. BETTER YET DON"T WAIST YOUR MONEY BUYING IT. I purchased this for a 10 gallon tank I was dividing for two male bettas. Beyond that, the stabilizer on the Amazon version is a little taller that the one from the LFS - something I learned after the fact with horrible results (one of the males jumped over to the other side and fought with the other while I was at work. I ended up replacing the plastic sheet with a sheet of stiff plastic canvas which works perfect and allows the water to circulate without a second filter. The one I got on Amazon is MUCH less flimsy (and I even broke the stabilizer on top on the Amazon one. Now, this divider might work well for other fish, but it is not suited at all for bettas. The only thing this is going to stop from getting to the other side pf your tank is the fish fecies that gets caught on the center of it. DON'T WASTE OR TIME WAITING FOR THIS PRODUCT TO COME IN THE MAIL. That became a huge problem since the betta on that side became very stressed from the water movement. If the holes in the plastic sheet that came with this divider were a little bit bigger, I think it would be a much better product. I tested my tank water and there's nothing wrong with it, the problem is that this divider just stressed them out too much. The only way I could make this work for both fish was to add a second filter on the other side of the tank....