Glass hoods don't fit

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I just purchased some 24" glass hoods for my 55 gal over the weekend, and they are about 1/4" too long to fit in the plastic frame of my tank.

Anyone else ever have this issue? (I figure I could probably get a local glass shop to trim them.)
 
Happened to me. I got my 75g real cheap because the glass covers were missing. The tank sat in my garage for a month while I got the other equipment. Eventually I bought a glass cover and it was too small. The tank is a Perfecto I think, and the cover glass was AGA. I ended up getting the correct size cover glass only to leave them on the floor and standing on them :thud:

To cut a long story short, I went to Lowes and they cut me some new glass.
 
Each tank brand will be slightly different in dimensions. An All Glass and Hagen are quite different, as I found out. So ideally you need to find the glass that is the same brand as your tank or else it is time to get creative.
 
Unfortunately, mine is a Top-Fin (Petsmart) brand tank, and this store brand doesn't make glass hoods. I've heard these tanks are made by one of the big name-brand manufacturers, but I've tried both All-Glass versa-tops and Perfecto (Marineland) glass hoods and both were about 1/4" too big.
 
Yea I bought an All-Glass glass lid for my All-Glass 10 gallon tank and the dumb thing was 1/4" too short and fell into the tank. I returned it.
 
You need to buy a boxed set for a 55 gallon. They are 23 7/8 inches or something like that. The dimensions for a 55 are slightly smaller because of the center brace. If you buy a 48" inch glass canopy, it will actually contain 2 23 7/8 inch canopies.
 
when I bought my glass tops they were 1/4 inch to long so I took them to a glass shop and they cut them down for 5-10 bucks. HTH
 
If you want to make your own glass lids, or replace the worn plastic parts on your existing ones, you can buy the plastic parts separately. This includes the flexible plastic hinge, that plastic strip along the back that you cut shapes in to let hoses and cords into the tank, and the handles.

I found them at "Drs. Foster & Smith" (I hate that name, it's so pretentious!) (formerly Pet Warehouse); you can see them here - it's the last four items listed on the page:

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=3790&N=2004+113082
 
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