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55 Watt PC Fluorescent Light Fixture Plans
From Patrick Timlin's Aquaria site, simple instructions with photos for building a pine wood light hood enclosure that houses 55 watt power compact fluorescent bulbs.

Aquarium Hood Designs
From The Cyber Reef Guru site, Thomas Sasala provides basic information and tips about constructing an aquarium hood or canopy, and includes drawings of some popular hood designs.

Basic Aquarium Canopy Plan
Here is an easy basic plan, graphics and instructions for building a tank canopy. Make it as fancy or plain as you wish. The basics are the same.

David's 120g Tank Cabinet & Hood Construction Pics
From the Mistress Reef site, David Playfair provides much background information about his 120g reef tank, including many before and after construction pics of his beautiful wood cabinet and matching hood. No instructions are given for building this unit, but the photos give you an idea of what one can create.

DIY Oak Aquarium Canopy
Complete plans, tool list, material list, instructions, graphics and photos for building a DIY Oak Aquarium Canopy.

Fluorescent Light Hood Plan
Constructed of vinyl rain gutter material, Don Carner gives instructions on how to make this simple and inexpensive fluroescent light hood, which is sufficient for providing enough light to keep many kinds of soft corals, as well as a few stony types, such as Elegance and Hammer species.

Homemade Aquarium Canopy
From The Krib, Doug Valverde shares step-by-step directions for how he built his aquarium hoods.

Metal Halide Light Hood Plans
From The Cyber Reef Guru site, Thomas Sasala provides complete instructions with diagrams and photos for constructing either one of his two do-it-yourself MH (Metal Halide) light hoods made of wood.

Metal Halide Pendants Project
From the Reefer's Realm site, following these instructions will enable you to produce affordable metal halide fixtures. Photos are included.

PVC Pipe & Plastic Rain Gutter Light Hood Plans
Grant Tokumi shares digrams and instructions for making his 4 bulb aquarium light hood constructed of 1/2" PVC pipe, plastic rain gutter material, 2 twin bulb fluorescent ballast, and a few other items that only costs about $68.00.

Top 5 Light Ballast Kits
For either upgrading or making your fluorescent, VHO, Power Compact, or Metal Halide aquarium lighting system, here you can compare prices and read reviews on Coralife, Electro-Lite, Perfecto, IceCap, and Visi-Lux replacement ballasts and complete ballast kits.

Top 7 MH & PC Lighting Retrofit Kits
In the constant quest for more wattage in the same space, many saltwater aquarists choose to upgrade their existing fluorescent lighting to either Power Compacts or Metal Halides, rather than buying a complete new hood or canopy. There are even retrofit kits to upgrade Eclipse tanks.

Various DIY Lighting Plans
Listed in alphabetical order, from the Oz Reef DIY Links page just browse down to the "Lighting" section for fluorescent, light emitting diode, metal halide, neon, and reflector topic category lighting plans.