Plastic dipped coatings

[150 Gallon Reef]

I am in a pickle.... I have a reefbreeders photon 48 which has been a great light for me so far. I wanted to add a bit of a pop so I ordered 2 lumenbars. I am using the BOT mounting system from reefbreeders to hang the lights. I was unaware that the BOT system could not hold the additional weight of the lumenbars. Logan at reefbreeders told me that overtime, the BOT arms will sag....
So here's where I'm stuck. I had the option to purchase a different mounting system that attaches to the back of the stand, bit I have a custom acrylic top which has cutouts for the BOT arms already. So i NEED to use the arms or I'm sure wrasses would love to go carpet surfing.

I am currently communicating with a metal fabricator to add extra support to the arm so that I can still use the BOT without it sagging. He suggested one of two ways to do it... Either add a spine along the back of the arm shown in the picture, or make an exact cutout of the arm and mount it to the side of the BOT.

OR, I have the metal fabricator make the same BOT mount out of metal and find someone else dip it with a reef safe plastic...??

Does anybody have experience with this or does anybody have input with how this will hold up?

 

[motzCOreefer]

You could try some of this stuff. https://www.dipyourcar.com/

It is plasti dip for cars. I have a variant of this on my Tesla and it has held up to 2 years of CO winters.