How did you mount your lights?

[PPBlimpy]

I would be custom building something. It would still need to hinge up from the wall somehow on my setup, or at lest the front hinge up.

To reach the back of my tank I need a 5 ft step ladder and have to lay on top of it. Tank is 96x30 wide and 24" deep. Stand is 40" tall, so top of tank sits at 5'6". I am short and just happen to be 5"6" so other then feeding everything else is done on a step stool.

lol

 

[Marco_99]

3/4 Blk pipe and some 7/8 hat channel I had around. Cable track to house the wires on the wall. Will modify again at some point for adding a front and rear 48” strip light so I didn’t get to crazy finalizing it. I haven’t decided which ones I want to get.

 

[redfishbluefish]

I have an open top canopy that's five feet long, and I'm a Black Box user. The first thing I did was pick up aluminum angle from HD and cut and drilled to bolt to the eyelets coming out of the fixture (these are older lights I'm no longer using, but did use that aluminum angle for the new lights I'm currently running.)

My first attempt was to now bolt these to inexpensive fir strip from HD.

The issue with just using straight fir strips, especially when I went to three fixtures, was the weight of the lights cause the strips to bow down in the middle. I fixed this problem by taking that same inexpensive fir strip and ripping it to form an El bracket ....and now no sag.

I term this my light rack and here it is leaning up against the door.

What's great is that I can switch out my lights in about two minutes if need be because I have a second light rack with Fathom fixtures:

Here's how it looks with the canopy door open...

 

[bubbgee]

I came up with this setup. Using Orphek OR4 bars with their Aura acrylic mounts and then mounted my aquatic life on top of it . I also tried this with a couple of metal bars and mounted the Radions that way on top of the OR4 as well. Makes the light float without the metal bars on the side or back.

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[FishLvR]

Geisemann brackets. With some 1 x 1 aluminum for the two lamps.

 

[Airedale Reef]

I prefer Kessil lights, so naturally I chose their corresponding equipment as well. I ended up choosing the mounting arms over the gooseneck, and I preferred streamlined look and the defined angles.

 

[luis angel]

Home Depot closet rails plus an AI hanging kit

 

[Aaron Stone]

Made a wooden open canopy and hung it from the ceiling (joists). Lights on the inside are mounted using angle aluminum.

Hanger

Mounting for two Kessil A500X and two AI Blades.

 

[Kodock]

Home Depot closet rails plus an AI hanging kit

This is great!!

 

[Kodock]

I’m still working on mine, but it’ll be an 8ft canopy that hangs from a 12ft ceiling. 6 hanging points, left-middle-right.. need more brackets and still have to paint and add trim.. Still trying to figure out what I’ll use to mount my new reefbreeders to, 80/20 or something basic

Too bad my ceiling joist dont line up with where the tank will sit, so I’ll do 2 horizontal surface cleats on the ceiling. Lining up the cleats with where the tank will go is not fun. May have to do a cross brace in the attic.

 

[billyocean]

Threaded pipe and flanges attached to ledger on wall

 

[jonelder68]

DIY for the win! I wanted something that’s easily adjustable. Can raise the lights by lifting them up, pull a pin, and then reinstalling pin to lock in place. Takes just a few seconds. Everything is adjustable from rod lengths with heim joint/swedge tubes. To angles. Very happy with it all from left over stuff around the shop.

 

[onemoretank]

DIY for the win! I wanted something that’s easily adjustable. Can raise the lights by lifting them up, pull a pin, and then reinstalling pin to lock in place. Takes just a few seconds. Everything is adjustable from rod lengths with heim joint/swedge tubes. To angles. Very happy with it all from left over stuff around the shop.

Wow! very impressive- wish I had the skills