Polka,
I just have the standard glass top with the 36" strip light that it came with. The glass top gives me a little room in the front to work, but if you want to get to the back of the tank you have to take off the light and the top. As for the light mine is pretty standard two strip light which i've upgraded, but right now its just a FOWLR tank and I have a couple of mushrooms. HTH