robster
10/08/2005, 08:38 PM
I finally got my canopy finished. It was a delayed almost a month because my neighbor cut off some of his fingertips when using the table saw making it. Ouch. Anyway here it is. Let me know what you think. I just copied this post from my reef club website:
www.rasoc.org
My neighbor was nice enough to build me a custom canopy for my 37 gallon tank. His carpentry skills are superb. I provided the wood and hinges and he built it for a nominal fee. He did a really good job and said that he would consider building other custom/canopy jobs upon request. Let me know if you are intersted in speaking with him.
I used white poplar plywood. It is furniture grade wood for just $30 per sheet.
It was the only wood I could find that matched well with the stand.
I bought Orion 51 cfm fans. One blowing in, one blowing out. A little loud. Any suggestions for making them a little quieter. These AC fans are great for the price. Only $13.50 each and there is no bulky transformer to plug in. You can get them here. Lots of different sizes and speeds to choose from.
http://www.arcade-electronics.com/cgi-bin/webc.exe/st_prod.html?p_prodid=21303&p_catid=744&sid=7@mDZ21FQChj9-j-47105197945.6d
So far the temp is actually cooler than when I had it as an open top with a metalic silver egg crate suicide lid on it. I guess this is because of the fans blowing across the top. I am going to have to turn the heater up a bit. It is currently running 76.5 degrees.
The lighting is a PFO 250W HQI fixture. I got the idea of sitting it on top like that from Typhon back when he did this to his last tank. Thanks for posting your pics Typhon.
You can view the pictures in my shutterfly album here. I have never figured out how to insert pics in the post.
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AZtWLlk4as2Ei¬ag=1
The only problem I am having right now is the support beam in the inside front. It is in the way of being able to stick my arm into the tank to do simple maintenance such as turkey baste the substrate. He put that there to provide ultimate support. I might decide to take this out.
www.rasoc.org
My neighbor was nice enough to build me a custom canopy for my 37 gallon tank. His carpentry skills are superb. I provided the wood and hinges and he built it for a nominal fee. He did a really good job and said that he would consider building other custom/canopy jobs upon request. Let me know if you are intersted in speaking with him.
I used white poplar plywood. It is furniture grade wood for just $30 per sheet.
It was the only wood I could find that matched well with the stand.
I bought Orion 51 cfm fans. One blowing in, one blowing out. A little loud. Any suggestions for making them a little quieter. These AC fans are great for the price. Only $13.50 each and there is no bulky transformer to plug in. You can get them here. Lots of different sizes and speeds to choose from.
http://www.arcade-electronics.com/cgi-bin/webc.exe/st_prod.html?p_prodid=21303&p_catid=744&sid=7@mDZ21FQChj9-j-47105197945.6d
So far the temp is actually cooler than when I had it as an open top with a metalic silver egg crate suicide lid on it. I guess this is because of the fans blowing across the top. I am going to have to turn the heater up a bit. It is currently running 76.5 degrees.
The lighting is a PFO 250W HQI fixture. I got the idea of sitting it on top like that from Typhon back when he did this to his last tank. Thanks for posting your pics Typhon.
You can view the pictures in my shutterfly album here. I have never figured out how to insert pics in the post.
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AZtWLlk4as2Ei¬ag=1
The only problem I am having right now is the support beam in the inside front. It is in the way of being able to stick my arm into the tank to do simple maintenance such as turkey baste the substrate. He put that there to provide ultimate support. I might decide to take this out.