Can I see your hoods?

[Jen]

I need to build another hood for my new tank (90g) and I need about 200watts of light in there. The last hood I built was easy because it was only 2 bulbs, but I'm anticipating it will need to be bigger to accomodate all the bulbs.

Muchly appreciated

 

[carrcn]

Here's mine. You can't see the lights inside, but there's 6 48" T8 bulbs laid inside with room for one or two more maybe. It's a 55 gallon. Lights up the whole room with the lid open.

link to hood

 

[Jen]

How do you have the lights arranged? Are they laying on the glass?

 

[andywg]

Here is one pic

That shows the mylar (cheaper than reflectors) and the front light.

This one sort of shows how there is one 54W T5 at the front of the tank and three towards the back.

The shot below is more recent and shows how the two Metal Halide Lights I installed light up their areas.

 

[carrcn]

Yes, the lights are laying flat right on top of the glass. Just went down to Home Depot and bought the end pieces for the lights and a couple of ballasts and went to town. They're fairly well packed in there, so they don't slide around a whole lot when I take it off to do water changes. It is a bit heavy, though.

 

[Jen]

Awesome, thanks!