How to raise lighting on rimless tank without hanging

It looks like the wire end supports me be able to extend out more.
you could silycone a strip of glass to the top edge of the glass to lift the light.

mikebike said:

It looks like the wire end supports me be able to extend out more.
you could silycone a strip of glass to the top edge of the glass to lift the light.

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Thanks for the suggestion! I may have to look in to making acrylic risers to sit on top of the glass. I would prefer not to silicone my tank.

Silicone can easily be taken off of a glass pane. Razor blade/olfa knife

Yup. I have the same light and yeah a piece of glass or acrylic siliconed on would work nicely and still look decent too.

If you decide to use a riser, make it out of glass. Glass to glass silicones well and sticks. Glass to acrylic does not stick very well.

You could still use glass & silicone, without permanently affixing the glass to your tank (although, as mention; it's not hard to remove silicone later).

Get some pieces of glass that are the same thickness as your tank. Cut it into 3 lengths (per side). 1 length will be the desired height of your light, this will be the "riser". The other 2 will be of approximately the same size, the will form the "saddle". Glue up (w/silicone) these 3 pieces so that the riser is sandwiched between the two saddle pieces, with the saddle pieces extending about half an inch below the riser. Held upside down the 3 pieces would resemble a "Y".

Now you can simply slip these pieces on either side of your tank and then rest the light across them.

Moveable, removable, and cheap to make.

You could mock it up out of scrap wood first to make sure you're happy with the height.

Brilliant man! Seems like a no brainer....

Thank you everyone for the great advice! Daryl's method seems the most ideal for myself. Looks like I'll have something to do tomorrow! I'll update here with the finished product.

Don't forget: sand those edges!

let's see some full tank shots, looks like a pretty nice tank

rwong2k10 said:

let's see some full tank shots, looks like a pretty nice tank

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Hehe I will start a journal for it soon I've got a big tank project coming as well!