using a clamp on light

I can not help on clamping them but I saw in another forum that the person unscrew the socket and painted the outside of the lamp black. I will try to find the link if I can remember which forum. I mostly hangout on AC.

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you can probably paint the outside black with a high temp spray paint (high temp depends on your lights really, from autozone or advance auto or somethign) and then remove the clamp and hang it from the ceiling for the best look.

Get spray paint designed for woodstoves. Painting the outside black and the inside white looks really nice, and might even improve the reflectivity of the dome.

Here its a link to the high heat paint:
http://mobile.walmart.com/m/phoenix...eum-High-Heat-Flat-Spray-Paint-Black/17203457
Also the CFL bulbs would work better because they are vertical.

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moving the tank is probably going to be harder to do than moving the lights.

You can always put a 2x4 or equivalent so that it sticks out on the wall right behind the top of the tank and clamp the lights to that?

on my tanks i use white plastic eggcrate -- the plastic grate , ~3/4" squares, used for modular fluorescent ceiling lights. i trim it to fit into the top, with appropriate extra openings for the filters, and just stand the lamps flat on the plastic, 1 or 2 per tank depending on how bright you want things.

i use spiral cfl's so heat is not an issue -- definitely not recommended if you use incandescent lamps of any type.

unless you're using particularly messy foods, you can feed the fish through the grate without having to open/lift it.

if i weren't so lazy i would unscrew the clamps so they would look better, but that's too much work