I noticed you wanted a short tank, this one is 72", and I believe it's 18x18. I got tired of having to move my seat over to the left or right to see it all.

It has a stand, and I built a podium for it to sit on so I could squeeze the 55 under it. I had plenty of space and even the skimmer had a lot of head room. The podium is about 6" high... well, maybe 5.5", I built it with 2"x6" pine. It's painted black and the stand is a darker walnut stain.

I had built a canopy for it, but I shorted it by about an eigth of an inch which resulted in one side snapping. I continued to use it as it was as I had planned on upgrading. I have a thread somewhere here on MAAST that I started sometime in JAN09. The canopy only held four 36" T5s, and I stuffed two 36 T8 actinics under there as well. So yes, there is a canopy, but no I wouldn't recommend it.

I'll find the original post and place the link here for your review.