Mounting lights HELP!

[MizTanks]

Ok so my ceiling and walls are not an option to hang my 13lb LED unit. This leaves me with either mounting conduit to my tank stand or some how to the tank itself.

Conduit to the side of the tank stand? (Back of stand not an option) Issues are. The stand has an almost 2" lip so I would have to add a piece of wood to make it flush, then attach the conduit to that piece. My worry is the weight of the unit causing the conduit to sag. Thus pulling the conduit into the tank. Causing the light to sink lower.

Mounting the unit on the tank? Issues are. I've no idea how I could achieve this. The unit isn't made for this option.

Please someone help?!!

[Poseidon]

What light do you have?

Sounds like something made from [url=http://www.8020.net]

Or maybe:

|\
| \
| \
| \
| \
| \
|____\
| |
| |
| Light
|
|
|
| Tank.

Make sense? The | represent the wall, the \ is a 1/16" cable attached to the wall and the light, the _____ is a dowel/shaft that pushes the cable out from the wall and over the tank. This gives you 4 contact points on the wall. Less than 4 pounds at each point, in mostly a straight down pull, some screw in drywall anchors would hold that easy peasy, even in 3/8ths drywall I would think.

[Poseidon]

Hmm that is weird, the rest of the post vanished...

[MizTanks]

The unit is Reef Radiance LumenTek Pro 180. Very nice. But it's a heavy beast! Sorry but I've no idea what your trying to show/tell me.
9548
9549
9550

[Poseidon]

Looks a lot like my Reefbreeder fixture, they are quite nice. Don't forget the scotch tape over those red/green and amber LED's. ;)

[MizTanks]

I haven't forgotten :) And I've solved my mounting problem! I am so totally stoked!! Lol 24" tall & holds up to 66lbs.
Aquarium lighting bracket (http://www.aquastyleonline.com/products/Lighting-Bracket.html)

[caveman]

Why put tape over R,G,Amber, LEDs?

[Dmmz]

No idea

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[MizTanks]

Looks pretty good right?!
9611

[Poseidon]

Why put tape over R,G,Amber, LEDs?

The tape acts as a frosted section and increases the amount of spread. Without the tape I saw several areas of red and green cones, especially in shadowed areas that were only covered by the colored LEDs. With the tape that went away.

Give it a try. 😃

[Dmmz]

Looks pretty good right?!
9611

Looks great!!

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[MizTanks]

I'm not getting any colored cone areas at all :) Do the type of optics play a part in this?

Then again I'm only at 15% & 30% & Lunars @10% at night.

[Poseidon]

Of course the optics do. Usually on these fixtures the colors have the same optics as the rest of the LEDs, which means each of the colors is going to cover the same area as the blue that is next to it. The blues outnumber those colors many to 1. There is no way that the colors will cover an area any greater then a single blue or a single white with the same optic on it, so I added the frosted tape, which made those colors cover a greater area, of course at a lesser PAR, but that is not of concern in this case.

[MizTanks]

Poseidon, can you give me any advice on how best to run these lights? I don't wanna get discouraged because I don't fully understand how to use them correctly.

I've transferred all my coral from my 26g, all were being kept under 4x24w T5HO.

Now they are all on the SB 25" from the LED's. Channel 1 @15% & channel 2 @30 & channel 3@10% at night. Am I doing wrong? The hours are pretty much how I ran the T5's.

Channel 1 on at 10am off at 5pm
Channel 2 on at 9am off at 8pm
Channel 3 on at 8pm off at 11pm

[Poseidon]

That sounds like a good starting point. Your fixture is very similar to my old one, I can tell you that at 70% Blue, and 40% White I was hitting 300 par at 11" Deep in my tank. (Directly below the fixture.)

Really, as with any light change, you are going to have to watch the corals and adjust. If your Zoa's are stretching, add 5-10% to both channels, if they are squat/closed dial it back.

Any chances of borrowing a PAR meter?

[MizTanks]

No Zoa except for the ones riding on my Urchins back-lol-they look pretty dang good too!

No par meter. Checked with our club & they don't have one.