DIY canopy issue

[NOLA_Reefer]

so i have the frame of my canopy built, and it looks fine and seems plenty stable and everything. still needs to be painted and trimmed by whatever.

my question is i'm wondering what I can do to the bottom of it so you can't see up into the canopy if you're looking at the tank. I'll be running two radion xr30's and they'll be mounted kind of high in the canopy so it'd be hard to put a bottom on the canopy and still get proper light into the display. maybe I could get a sheet of light diffuser but I'm not sure how that would affect my spectrum or PAR.

any ideas?

 

[dowsetts101]

Any photos of what you’re looking at...kinda hard to visualise

 

[don_chuwish]

With a 'floating' canopy you either have to make it really deep or just live with the view up into it. Mine would have to be at least twice as deep as I made it to hide the T5s I added. But then it would just look too chunky.

 

[George Lopez]

Id recommend a longer skirt the difuser will stop distribution of light. The way it stops you from seeing the light it will do the same to the coral not under the light, then you might as well give me those and ill give you my black box lights lol.

 

[sundog101]

I had the same problem and some window shades. They're the Roman style and work really well.