some pics of my new hood build and lighting

[tommy tomato]

My hood was only about 8 inches off the water aand it gave me little room to work. i was always pulling it off to work on my tank.. it became a PIA. with my new lights i decided to lift the canopy higher up. I chose to use the same top portion of the canopy and just retrofit new sides onto it to give it more height. it now sits about 13 inches off the water or so and gives me a lot more space. here are some pics. my brother did most of it, i was just an over the back helper when he needed a tool lol

here is the old top with new sides:

we designed it to open from the front, also the top is vented and the back is open so its stays nice and cool.

my brother and and his homemade paint booth.

my lighting. i used locline to mount the led strips so it can move (thanks rogger and eddie)

a fts of the happy family

a navy sub that snuck up on us while out "collecting" off of ft lauderdale on saturday. glad we had our fishing licenses

 

[DRThompson]

New canopy looks great! I like your aquascaping too.

 

[marke]

Nice job on the hood! How are the corals reacting to the change?

 

[tommy tomato]

Nice job on the hood! How are the corals reacting to the change?

Thanks marke, the corals are loving it I've never had bigger polyp extension in my tank than I've had in the past few days. It's amazing. And the temp is at 77.6 right now at 4pm..

New canopy looks great! I like your aquascaping too.

Thanks doc!

 

[AquamanE]

All Locline ideas go to Rogger, I copied his.

The sub would have scared the $hi! out of me!!!!