75 gallon planted build

[ckwatson]

This thread will follow my 75 gallon build. It will hopefully be full of pictures and I'm sure it will also have a lot of questions from me.

I picked up a used 75 gallon non drilled tank and stand from this site. I also got an eheim classic 350 with the tank and stand. I bought a 48" Current Freshwater plus LED light. I am hoping this light will be enough to have a heavily planted tank. If I need to I can add one or two T5HO retro fit lights in the front of the tank for carpeting plants. I will be using Seachem flourish and flourish excel.

The stand was not as high as I would have liked and the hood that came with it did not offer the access that I wanted. All that meant it was time to make some modification. I made some changes to the hood so it would sit down on the stand. Then I made a base out of 2x10s that I trimmed down so that the tank now sits 8.5 inches higher. Dropped the old hood over the riser and added a little trim.

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Now that I repurposed the hood next on the todo list was to make a new hood.

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I think I made the hood to tall. I may take 2-3 inches off of the height of the hood. Then I have some more trim to add to the hood to dress it up a little. Then it will be time for a few coats of white paint.

 

[ckwatson]

Sorry the pictures didn't come through, I used links from Dropbox. What is the best way to post pictures?

 

[ckwatson]

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[hn1]

Very nice start. Following.

 

[dasianguy]

You're definitely gonna need more than one of those Current freshwater plus leds. I have 2 on my 55 and they seem to be just enough. About a year ago I switched to leds on this tank from a triple tube t8 fixture, and I had better growth with the t8's (it was just too ugly of a fixture).
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[popsbjd]

dasianguy;1111395 wrote: You're definitely gonna need more than one of those Current freshwater plus leds. I have 2 on my 55 and they seem to be just enough. About a year ago I switched to leds on this tank from a triple tube t8 fixture, and I had better growth with the t8's (it was just too ugly of a fixture).

+1 on this. I had one on a 55. It definitely grew plants but not high light plants. I had dwarf sag, crypts, crinum, and java moss. Mine crapped out after a year or so . I replaced it with a 4 bulb t5HO.

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[ckwatson]

Sorry for the lack of updates, I have been busy and traveling some. I still have some work to do on the stand and canopy. I did have some time this weekend to visit Premier Aquatics. They had some really nice pieces of drift wood, I picked up a few pieces and one piece of rock. I think it's gonna make a good looking aquascape.

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[ckwatson]

Finish the canopy tonight. I cut it down to 12 inches tall and added the trim molding. Now it just needs sanding and paint. Then I need to figure out what substrate I am going to use and fill it with water

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