New canopy finally complete!

[robbyville]

Hello all,

Well after two months of dithering around the new canopy is finally finished and installed.

Sides and gussets are plywood, frame, door frames are pine and the door panels are cedar. The lid is from my old canopy.

I'm happy with the new halides, they are a dual 250w PFO ballast, with 2x10k venture bulbs. I'm pretty pleased with the ventures as they only cost $52 ea USD. Even if the ventures only last 2/3 of the duration that a ushio would it's a pretty fair bet. The fans are 2x variable speed Icecaps, I'm incredibly impressed by how quiet they are! Even still the temp in the tank went up about 3 degrees in about 4 hours. I've added a clip on fan to help (Mind you, temp outside today was 33deg and I don't have air conditioning)!

At any rate, here's a pic to enjoy, I also put in one of my 96w acitinic pc's in for supplementation. I'll have to add another sometime soon, if any of you know where to find a 96w Four Pin (not square) PC in town please let me know!

Definitely looking forward to adding some SPS soon!

Best,

Rob

Ok, I can't figure out how to attach the picture! Di I have to have it on the web somewhere or is there a way to simply attach it as a jpg?