AI Hydra
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Sonicboom
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so do I even though i am looking at the ReefAngel. I currently have a birdsnest frag with purple tips, red candy cap monitpora, about 15 heads of bright green trumpet corals, two heads of torch corals, and a few other sps's i can't ID, all have shown incredible growth in polyp covering over some bald spots when i received them and the monti has already encrusted onto it's rock in only a month. very pleased with the Hydra's
Oh wow, that's awesome! I don't have my tank yet, it's a custom rimless. I should have it in about 8 weeks. I've been doing a lot of research on led lighting and the hydras just seem to be the best bang for buck. My tank is going to be 40 x 24 x 19 and I'm getting two fixtures. That should be enough for my tank size.
ReefMonkey13
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Does anyone think this would be too much for an elos mini (tank dim: 17W x 17L x 16H)?
hossa81
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So where does it mount? The tank stand or the wall?
hossa81
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Seemed a little bit flimsy. I think im just going to get the ceiling hanging kit. Looks very easy to use and is bery adjustable, at peast that what it seemed like from the ai hanging video. Anyone got full tank shot pictures with their hydras lighting?
ReefingHavoc
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Did you make this mount yourself? If so, how did you do it? Yours is wall mounted, could something like this be tank mounted? Also, any pics as to what you used to mount it with?
ReefingHavoc
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I did make it myself. You basically design what you want the unit to look like and order a rail and connectors. You'll then have to cut the rail to the correct lengths for your design, this can be done easily with a miter saw. Everything is attached together with special connectors and an Allen wrench.
Installation:
The 80/20 pieces have slots down the sides in which can fit a panhead screw(see attached). All I did was find a stud in the wall and screw two screws into the wall about 4" apart(you'll want to leave about 1/8 inch sticking out of the wall) and slid the mount down on top of them. I believe I used a #12 screw so the head was big enough to hold. The screw at the top should be approximately where you want the piece that extends over the tank to go.
If you wanted to tank mount the unit I'm sure you could; you would either have to build a hang on bracket or have something sturdy to screw into. 80/20 makes a lot of pieces and connectors that fit together so it's really up to your ingenuity.
Installation:
The 80/20 pieces have slots down the sides in which can fit a panhead screw(see attached). All I did was find a stud in the wall and screw two screws into the wall about 4" apart(you'll want to leave about 1/8 inch sticking out of the wall) and slid the mount down on top of them. I believe I used a #12 screw so the head was big enough to hold. The screw at the top should be approximately where you want the piece that extends over the tank to go.
If you wanted to tank mount the unit I'm sure you could; you would either have to build a hang on bracket or have something sturdy to screw into. 80/20 makes a lot of pieces and connectors that fit together so it's really up to your ingenuity.
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ReefingHavoc
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Sonicboom
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i'm liking that product, might have to grab some and see what i can make. Reefing is a perfect example of having room behind the tank so he was able to go with the tank mount version, my 180 was not movable so i would either have had to mount it to the wall behind the stand or ceiling. I didn't drill the holes the way AI shows it for the butterfly nut, I just used a 2 1/2" coarse thread Kreg screw i used to put my stand together and went straight into the beam in the ceiling. much easier.
ReefingHavoc
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I used the 10. More than strong enough for the job. Ask as many questions as you want, that's what these are for!
