Soak the livin hell out of the hydrotron!!! and I dont mean just overnight. Put the Tron in a tote or whatever and soak it in 5.8-6.0 water for aprox 12 hours then rinse and repeat atleast 2 more times for a total of 3 soaks. The more light the better as long as you can control the heat. I'm thinking bout investing in the heat blanket type things you install over the reflector to keep heat down from entering room. If you could put up a pic or something besides just saying using Rubbermaid. I'm gonna guess you mean DWC and if so then you could just paint the top white.