Figured this was as good a place as any to keep track of my endeavor. I have gathered some materials at this point and am still in the planning stages. I am working with a 29 gallon tank with a reptile hood consisting of 2 20 watts no bulbs and 2 incandescent sockets which will have screw in compact fluorescent bulbs for a total of 90 watts. I have 40 lbs of ecocomplete for substrate and have collected bark from a dead tree in my yard for the background. I still need to figure out what to do about filtration, I have a marineland HOT filter but am not sure if it will have the features needed to run in the approx 8-9" of water I am planning on in this setup.