The lamp on an aquarium is necessary not only in order that its inhabitants were visible. Lighting from a window or from a chandelier is not enough for small fishes and shells, and especially for plants. That aquarium flora normally developed, the additional source of lighting, the local directed lamp is necessary.
It is required to you
- Lining 10 cm and 25 cm wide on 3 m of everyone, ""liquid nails"" glue, furniture plastic corners under four screws, plastic profile 20х20, a roulette, a knife, a ruler corner, a marker.
Instruction
1. To make the lamp for an aquarium, prepare all necessary tools, get two three-meter strips of lining 10 and 25 cm wide, and a plastic profile in advance. Also you need a furniture corner under 4 screws, four pieces.
2. At first it is necessary to cut off excess plastic which serves for side connection with following ""board"" at the panel 10 cm wide. It is easy to remove it with a usual cassette or stationery knife. On the cut-off panel note width and length of your aquarium, and once again - width and length.
3. On a marking make an incision the panel, but not up to the end. On cuts bend lining in a rectangular box. Putting a furniture corner inside, note its openings on plasticity. Having unbent a box back, drill on marks of 16 openings a drill of the same, or slightly bigger size, than bolts.
4. Miss the mark places of bends and furniture corners with ""liquid nails"" glue, bend the panel in a box again. Bolt a design, try on on an aquarium if the sizes turned out true, leave before full drying of glue.
5. While glue dries, stick together, depending on aquarium width, two or three strips of wide lining. At the edges cut off the top layer, having left lower on a bend. At assembly turn in this surplus on a box, having missed the mark them with glue, from above paste a profile, as shown in the photo.
6. Now, when the case of the lamp is assembled, and glue dried, paint it from the outer side with black acrylic paint. After it dries, paste over inside of a box with the reflecting self-adhesive film. When all these works are finished, mount and attach all electrics in the case of your lamp. For a possibility of variation of force of lighting in your aquarium, calculate the scheme and collect a chain from five-six lighting elements, it can be useful at treatment of small fishes, for example, from semolina. Also, the muffled lighting can be necessary in case small fishes begin to throw caviar or when viviparous small fishes have whitebaits.