Capt.

Here's my DIY stand and canopy. The canopy has a double bulb shop light in it, may replace it with a 65 watt PC in the future.

hoppycalif

Chris, how do you reach down to the bottom of the tank? Take the canopy off? Your stand looks like you sized it to raise the tank up to good viewing height. I did that too, and I regret that I didn't make it a bit lower so I can reach the bottom easier. Or is the tank just a lot smaller than it looks - I'm guessing about 20 to 30 gallons?

Capt.

Yes I have to take the canopy off to work in the tank. The stand is fairly tall, I think I made it around 32 inches. I'm pretty tall so I wanted a higher stand, it's easier on my back if I have to do a lot of planting.

Good guess on the tank size, it's about 27 gallons. 24x12x22 roughly

John N.

Wow, that is a tall tank setup you got there.

Time to run over to HD and pick up some plywood and a handsaw.

Wish me luck!

jeff63851

Here's a link that I found to be very useful.

http://www.fishandtips.com/index.php

John N.

I never did show the final creation of my enclosure from everyone's ideas. Here it is!


The final product: Complete details building and my AHsupply experience .

Any new enclosures you want to show off?

-John N.

Muirner

I have a custom hood 4 x 32 Watt T8/T12 (I use only T8's currently) 6500k. It's rather tall but i have all the timers and a GFI in the hood.



http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/f...s-of-pics.html I will be adding with plant pictures soon.

jon_the_newb

Amazing how these old threads just pop back up again. I finished building my 75G stand and canopy a month or so ago. Just tonight I finally got the old 29G moved out, and the 75G moved in. Here's a shot of it, and then a couple of the canopy.







You can see the whole front swings up and open so I can feed the fish, once they actually get in there. What you can't see in those photos, inbetween the 55W reflectors, is some blue night lights.

Jon

RESGuy

My 55g stand before the doors and handles were added:

After (sorry not very good):

shake

Here's my 90g Stand. No hood as I wanted the open look.