Hi, Shane. Hoping to encourage you to do the deal. 170 gallons is a lot of
tank, especially connected to your 70 gallon. Seems like a very interesting
set-up. If the 170 is rectangular, you can simply build a shelf over it and
mount the lights on the underside of the shelf. You can place light things
for storage on top and put a nice looking trim around it for a more
professional look. You can do this by buying premachined boards at Home Depot
and mounting them on some inexpensive shelf brackets. The whole project can
be done really well for under $100. You would need a good return pump and for
a system that size an Iwaki WMD40XRLT would work very well. These are
available online for around $160 plus shipping and will literally run
forever. You can, of course, hard plum the entire system easily with sched.
40 PVC. I have about 500 gallons of systems on the second floor of our house.
The weight is not a problem as long as we don't add waterbeds! You should try
to put your tanks perpendicular to floor joists. Electrical supply is more of
a concern. You can very easily polish out the majority of defects in the
plexi by yourself for much less than $200. Go for it! HTH.
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