Lance's 225 gal tank

Lance · #1 04-08-2010, 02:04 AM

I went looking for hardware to hang the new light for the tank, and came up empty handed. There are 1/8" threaded posts on the top of the fixture for hanging. I tried to find coupling nuts to fit at Rona and Canadian Tire but can't find them that small; 3/16 was the smallest I could find. Couldn't even find any on-line. Any suggestions?

banditpowdercoat · #2 04-08-2010, 02:12 AM

If you need, in a couple weeks, when I get back from Albian, I can machine you something

Allways looking for reasons to play with the Metal Lathe.

Mrfish55 · #3 04-08-2010, 02:54 AM

Are you wanting to use cable to hang it? we could do something similar to what I did for the light rack on the 750

marie · #4 04-08-2010, 03:59 AM

Don't know if it would help or not (your light is at least 4 times heavier then mine) but I have the cable hangers for my light that I'm not using

Lance · #5 04-08-2010, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by marie

Don't know if it would help or not (your light is at least 4 times heavier then mine) but I have the cable hangers for my light that I'm not using

Might be worth looking at anyway. I'll stop in soon and have a look.

Lance · #6 04-08-2010, 04:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Mrfish55

Are you wanting to use cable to hang it? we could do something similar to what I did for the light rack on the 750

I can't remember it. How's it hung?

Lance · #7 04-08-2010, 04:29 AM

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Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

If you need, in a couple weeks, when I get back from Albian, I can machine you something

Allways looking for reasons to play with the Metal Lathe.

Thanks for the offer but I plan on having this baby hanging long before then.

untamed · #8 04-08-2010, 02:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Lance

I went looking for hardware to hang the new light for the tank, and came up empty handed. There are 1/8" threaded posts on the top of the fixture for hanging. I tried to find coupling nuts to fit at Rona and Canadian Tire but can't find them that small; 3/16 was the smallest I could find. Couldn't even find any on-line. Any suggestions?

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Lance · #9 04-08-2010, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by untamed

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Thanks Brad. Can't find that size in the on-line catalog, which doesn't necessarily mean they don't have them though. I'll check them out next time I'm in the city.

Lance · #10 05-05-2010, 04:38 AM

Ok, I'm finally ready to hang my new light fixture, but before I actually start drilling holes in my ceiling I have a question for those of you who have run 400W lighting before: How high above the water surface should it be hung? (I'm thinking about 12 inches?) The tank is 72" x 24" deep and 30" wide. (mixed reef) The fixture is a 72" Sfiligoi Infinity XR4. It currently has 3x400W Giesemann 13000K Megachrome MH, and 4x6400K T5's and 4x actinic T5's, and 8x LED moonlights. Wattage will increase from 942 watts currently to 1662 watts with the new fixture so I will start acclimating the corals with a one hour on and one hour off schedule, gradually working up to 8 hours of MH, and 12 hours of T5. Most of the corals can be moved fairly easily and the large GBTA will most likely move on his own if he doesn't like the new lighting. Any advice and suggestions are appreciated.