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lele
at Thu Jun 9 15:54:40 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by lele ]
don't apologize - that's great! This tank also has the hard plastic across the short distance. Unfortunately, the people who had it before, placed a light on that "bar" and melted it (big time!), but hey - we've all melted something in our setup at some point, right! I JUST (like an hour ago) melted my strip light with Darwin's basking light b/c I was NOT paying attention where it was laying when I had him out - ugh!
Yes, can't wait to see pics! thank you 
>>yes, I could post pics shortly...we used wood that came 1/2"X 3 feet or so...hubby might know for sure...we also used screen material we picked up at Lowes...the kind you would use for a screen window, we got the aluminum because we originally thought his basking light would sit on it...the aluminum can take the heat...we used small hinges-they're 1 inch long...the tank (75 gallon)is bisected down the middle with hard plastic...so we made one half of the tank a screen that fills half the tank top, the other end we divided into two and actually made two screens one hinged and the other not since we thought his lamp would sit there...we will eventually make another screen top that will replace those two so the tank will actually have two screen covers, each half the tank length, figure it would be sturdier than just one very big one and I usually don't need the whole top open...we used a piece of that same wood and attached that with screws to the plastic that runs around the top of the tank (it protrudes from the side of the tank 1/2" into the tank)we then mounted the hinge to that as well as the screen top...the screen top is recessed into the tank 1'2" so the whole top of the tank is level...pics will help in understanding...sorry so long...
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RE: 4'x18" screen - hinged? - lele, Thu Jun 9 15:54:40 2005