After much debating on what lights to use for the 29g tank I've been planning on setting up, I recently purchased three 24" sunblaster nanotechs. Pictures of two of the fixtures and the included hanging brackets are below. I need to hang these lights over the tank. I initially wanted to make a lighting stand out of electrical conduit but decided in an effort to make my life easier to hang them from something mounted to the wall. The ceiling is out of the question because I have a high and awkwardly shaped vaulted ceiling in the room. It turns out there's nothing easy or cheap about mounting the lights. I first looked at shelving, but couldn't find much of anything that stuck out from the wall far enough besides some hideous wire shelves. I also looked at some plant hangars, and just plain shelf brackets. I ended up in the hardware aisle at Home Depot with a couple very standard shelf brackets and a couple employees. I figured I could drill a few holes in the brackets where I needed the lights and put an eyehole screw in each hole with a nut holding them in place. Then I would just run some steel cable through the eyeholes and then through the hole in the provided mounting bracket. I was starting to feel good since this was cheap and seemed easy enough. Then when I asked how I would secure the cable together in a loop the employee said that I needed a crimping tool or a certain type of fastener. This would apparently run me at least $20 on top of the rest of the hardware bringing my total up way too high. I believe I should be able to do this for around $20 total and spending that much more defeats the purpose of buying the cheaper sunblasters in the first place. So, I left Home Depot with nothing and no idea how I am going to hang the lights. I'm now extremely frustrated and need someone to help me figure out how to hang these without breaking the bank.
