The room it will be in is a west room that gets only little light during the day, so no worries there.
As for the braces, I will determine that when I pull all of them off of the tank and get the exisisting glass cleaned up. If it looks feasible, I may attempt it.
It currently has a huge ( 2 foot long piece) of 1/2" thick glass in the top middle of the tank. Not really the best for a planted tank.
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