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.
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.
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.