I'm almost finished.  I just have to put one more coat of sealer on the inside of the canopy.  I would have preferred a natural wood look with stain, but the setup was already painted and I didn't feel like stripping paint.  So I just did a light sanding and repainted it.  It was black with white trim.  Rhonda decided she wanted blue trim instead.  I did have to make a couple minor repairs and do some extra bracing on the canopy, but it wasn't too difficult.  Here's a quick picture I took before I was told it was time for bed.

Well the tank is in place.  I do have to resilicone the overflow box though.  I had to cut it out in order to remove the old bulkhead assembly.  I also finished cleaning up the sump, but I had to remove the baffles in it because of leaks.  I'll get replacement baffles and resilicone them in also.  Don't know if you can tell, but Rhonda has been decorating

Well I spent this past Wed night with Glenn building light racks.  We guinea pigged with my rack and finished it.  I'm waiting on the hanging kits and I need to do some wire management when it's installed in the canopy, but here is the completed rack.  Still haven't decided on my final bulb arrangement though.

so you are going T5 instead of MH?  I am debating that right now, what are the reasons you are going T5's?

Well I have Blue Plus T5s, Actinic VHOs, and 10K 250MH on my 225G SPS reef. I was putting T5s on the 40G cause it's only going to have LPS corals. No need for the intensity of MHs. However, you can do SPS under only T5s especially in a shallow tank, but I like the shimmer lines that you get from the MHs and the extra intensity definitely doesn't hurt when you have SPS.

Welcome to the forums 

thanks for the info! and the welcome!