Light hanging help

[brizzo]

Personally I think it would look awesome having stainless steel cables suspending your lights from 14' ceilings! Right now your tank kind of acts like a room divider, so why not extend that upwards if you know what I mean ?

I don't think I've ever seen a rectangular fixture suspended with only one cable. What would stop it from spinning?

Your best bet might be to visit a couple lighting stores (not big box stores), but an actual lighting store. Maybe you can even find a fixture you could retrofit as your light rack?

Also keep in mind where your ballasts will go, along with cabling. Also, I HIGHLY recommend using a laser-line plumb-bob for properly aligning your cables to the ceiling!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by nazerine

Personally I think it would look awesome having stainless steel cables suspending your lights from 14' ceilings! Right now your tank kind of acts like a room divider, so why not extend that upwards if you know what I mean ?

I don't think I've ever seen a rectangular fixture suspended with only one cable. What would stop it from spinning?

Your best bet might be to visit a couple lighting stores (not big box stores), but an actual lighting store. Maybe you can even find a fixture you could retrofit as your light rack?

Also keep in mind where your ballasts will go, along with cabling. Also, I HIGHLY recommend using a laser-line plumb-bob for properly aligning your cables to the ceiling!

Well it could never spin very far because of the connection where the four cables meet but I guess it still would maybe move quite a bit.

My new tank is going against the wall but I know what you mean. Its not a room divider anymore.

The ballast is going in a shelf under the stand.