Lights, but not a hood?

Impudence12

Impudence12

Broke Aquarist
Jul 3, 2007
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Charlotte, NC
What's the best way to go about getting lights? I don't want a hood, I'm aiming for a lidless planted-ish tank. Does home depot or someplace have quailty light fixtures I can attach or at the very least set up behind and tether to my tank? Tank's a 20 long, 12x12x30.
 
www.drsfostersmith.com has some lighting that goes over the tank but there's open air between it and the tank.
they're kinda expensive, but i think that's kinda what you're looking for.
 
Yea it's pretty much what I'm after, just without the couple hundred dollar price tag. Even the 70 dollar ones which wouldn't fit seem way to steep.
 
What about suspending the lighting from the ceiling, Takashi Amano style?
 
The Corallife Compact fixtures with the legs that can be tilted up and down are the ideal lights. Only problem they are far from the ideal price. Even if I did want to spend that much, they don't make ones for a 30 inch long tank...

Is there a DIY substitute for something similar? I feel able to make a clamping system to hold up the lights so I think getting a 24 inch length light fixture would work. Only problem then is if I can find something cheaper than just buying the fixture at 60+ bucks.
 
I hung my light fixture from the ceiling as shown in the pics above. I just took a normal aquarium light fixture. Drilled some holes in the top to attach hooks. Mounted some hooks in the ceiling and used some cheap hanging lamp chain from Home Depot to use between the hooks.
 
Imp,

Coralife does indeed make 30" lights I have one over a 29g and one over a 20g long as we speak. I know what you mean about the moolah though.
 
hmm, as far as mounting hooks to the ceiling. The light fixtures aren't that heavy, do you need to find the beams in the ceiling or will the sheetrock hold fine?

Most of the "coral life power thing fixture" google search websites never seemed to have anything that wasn't 24 or 36. At this point tho I'm considering just going budget and getting normal fluorescent lights and hang them, or make a scaphel thing to screw into the back of the desk it;s on.
 
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