Help with a 125gal

[Steve]

I am asking for help in the form of equipment and livestock, for a 125gal freshwater (probably angelfish and tetras). I work for an emergency shelter in Hamilton and an old friend of mine has given me a 125 to set up in the shelter. It is a full system but I would like to upgrade just a little so that we can grow live plants. I am also looking at adding a canopy and if need be just putting a basic one together. Primarily to keep people from feeding the cute little fish white bread and crackers. I will post a quick list of stuff and update it as we go. Anyone who donates can recieve a tax write off for their gift and we will also probably be making a plaque with everyones name on it, something that could benefit our sponsors because we have a lot of business people and churches who work with us and it would be some free advertising. So I am reaching out to members and sponsors. Thanks for your help this should be interesting.

Hers is the list.

Lights to fit a 72 inch tank Prob PC's or T5's able to grow live plants (aquired)
Fish
Plants
Oak stained canopy or
wood to make a canopy
Filters - canister or larger Whisper or similar style (aquired)
fish food.

That is it for now. We will see how it goes.

[Kenn]

I have a set of PC lighting I would be happy to donate.

[Steve]

What size is it Kenn?

[Kenn]

PM sent

[Steve]

We could also use some drift wood if any has some.

[bennyskinfield]

What kind of substrate are you going to be using?  Ive got about 125lbs of natural colord gravel.  I may allso have some larger HOTB filters that will work for you ill have to look.  Also if you have a hard time finding lighting and you build a hood you can just run drop lights with 6500 PC bulbs.