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Here are the dimensions for my tank that I am wanting to plant. I am planning on low light plats, but need help with which LEDs to get, what colors, lenses, and layout. Its not going to be heavily planted. Here is a picture of the tank currently and a drawing of the tank layout for the hood. Any help is appeciated. Thank you for all the help that everyone has given me so far.

 

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thanks Hoppy. How thick should the aluminum plate be?

 

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Hoppy, another question concerning those lights. All I could find them in was a 15 ft roll. Can they be cut down, etc? I can get the aluminum without a problem, and i was planning on having the glass top over the tank, and then a hood. I have a fan I can put in it to get rid of some of the heat, so that won't be a problem either, especially since I am building my own hood, and with the glass it should hopefully cut down on the moisture the lights are exposed to. THe other question is, what type of controller do I use for these. Thanks again for the help.

 

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could I put a rheostat on these to control the brightness of them, or would I need a different way of dimming them and ramping up the moonlights? I would like to have a gradual transition from daytime to nighttime viewing.